Oliver Mtukudzi as a cultural activist: exploring Africanity in Tuku Music
This chapter critically engages Oliver Mtukudzi’s lyrical compositions, Tsika Dzedu (Our cultural traditions) and Mwana Wamambo (The Prince/Princess). While utilizing these selected renditions among the musician’s musical corpus, the chapter notes that Mtukudzi’s music is both functional and valid a...
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| description | This chapter critically engages Oliver Mtukudzi’s lyrical compositions, Tsika Dzedu (Our cultural traditions) and Mwana Wamambo (The Prince/Princess). While utilizing these selected renditions among the musician’s musical corpus, the chapter notes that Mtukudzi’s music is both functional and valid art for it advances Africanity in a multicultural context. It further argues that such cultural activism and reconstructive agenda permeating the selected lyrical renditions demonstrate that Tuku is a musician par-excellence since he is an embodiment of Shona and/or African culture. This, in turn, makes Tuku more of a cultural hero; the chapter argues that Mtukudzi’s art is art-for-life’s sake. The appreciation of these selected songs is hinged on analytic Afrocentricity as defined by Asante (An Afrocentric Manifesto: Toward an African Renaissance. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007: 41) who posits that; “when Afrocentricity is employed in analysis or criticism, it opens the way for examination of all issues related to the African world.” |
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| spelling | ir-11408-48272022-06-27T13:49:05Z Oliver Mtukudzi as a cultural activist: exploring Africanity in Tuku Music Maganga, Allan T. Tembo, Charles Chikara, Tendai Owen Culture Activist Africanity Afrocentricity Multicultural This chapter critically engages Oliver Mtukudzi’s lyrical compositions, Tsika Dzedu (Our cultural traditions) and Mwana Wamambo (The Prince/Princess). While utilizing these selected renditions among the musician’s musical corpus, the chapter notes that Mtukudzi’s music is both functional and valid art for it advances Africanity in a multicultural context. It further argues that such cultural activism and reconstructive agenda permeating the selected lyrical renditions demonstrate that Tuku is a musician par-excellence since he is an embodiment of Shona and/or African culture. This, in turn, makes Tuku more of a cultural hero; the chapter argues that Mtukudzi’s art is art-for-life’s sake. The appreciation of these selected songs is hinged on analytic Afrocentricity as defined by Asante (An Afrocentric Manifesto: Toward an African Renaissance. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007: 41) who posits that; “when Afrocentricity is employed in analysis or criticism, it opens the way for examination of all issues related to the African world.” 2022-04-14T12:58:15Z 2022-04-14T12:58:15Z 2022 Book chapter 978-3-030-80727-6 978-3-030-80728-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80728-3_8 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/4827 en The Life and Music of Oliver Mtukudzi: Chitando, E., Mateveke, P., Nyakudya, M., Chinouriri, B. (eds);Chapter: p. 107-119 open Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. |
| spellingShingle | Culture Activist Africanity Afrocentricity Multicultural Maganga, Allan T. Tembo, Charles Chikara, Tendai Owen Oliver Mtukudzi as a cultural activist: exploring Africanity in Tuku Music |
| title | Oliver Mtukudzi as a cultural activist: exploring Africanity in Tuku Music |
| title_full | Oliver Mtukudzi as a cultural activist: exploring Africanity in Tuku Music |
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| title_short | Oliver Mtukudzi as a cultural activist: exploring Africanity in Tuku Music |
| title_sort | oliver mtukudzi as a cultural activist: exploring africanity in tuku music |
| topic | Culture Activist Africanity Afrocentricity Multicultural |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80728-3_8 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/4827 |
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