Stance Accounts of Political and Religious Identities in ‘Tuku’ Music

Music has become one of the most powerful tools to communicate diverse issues in the public discourse of contemporary societies. Political and religious identities are among a plethora of constructions and contestations of meanings advanced by music producers and artists. The textuality of songs is...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jakaza, Ernest, Mangeya, Hugh
Format: Book chapter
Language:English
Published: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham 2022
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97200-4_16
http://hdl.handle.net/11408/5190
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1779905647991586816
author Jakaza, Ernest
Mangeya, Hugh
author_facet Jakaza, Ernest
Mangeya, Hugh
author_sort Jakaza, Ernest
collection DSpace
description Music has become one of the most powerful tools to communicate diverse issues in the public discourse of contemporary societies. Political and religious identities are among a plethora of constructions and contestations of meanings advanced by music producers and artists. The textuality of songs is not neutral, but a matter of a public act that dialogically positions and (dis)aligns subjects with certain political and religious identities. It is in this context that this chapter evaluates political and religious identities in Oliver Mtukudzi’s music. It argues that Mtukudzi dialogically constructed and contested certain political and religious identities, taking a stance toward the self and others in response to salient dimensions of the socio-cultural situation. We engage the Stance theory to make an assessment of how Mtukudzi expressed his feelings, judgments and commitments in the construction of political and religious identities in his songs. Mtukudzi’s political and religious songs are conveniently sampled. Political and religious discourse identities in Tuku’s music are niche areas that have not been explored from a discourse-linguistic perspective.
format Book chapter
id ir-11408-5190
institution My University
language English
publishDate 2022
publisher Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
record_format dspace
spelling ir-11408-51902022-10-10T07:27:29Z Stance Accounts of Political and Religious Identities in ‘Tuku’ Music Jakaza, Ernest Mangeya, Hugh Music Political identity Religious identity Stance Mtukudzi Music has become one of the most powerful tools to communicate diverse issues in the public discourse of contemporary societies. Political and religious identities are among a plethora of constructions and contestations of meanings advanced by music producers and artists. The textuality of songs is not neutral, but a matter of a public act that dialogically positions and (dis)aligns subjects with certain political and religious identities. It is in this context that this chapter evaluates political and religious identities in Oliver Mtukudzi’s music. It argues that Mtukudzi dialogically constructed and contested certain political and religious identities, taking a stance toward the self and others in response to salient dimensions of the socio-cultural situation. We engage the Stance theory to make an assessment of how Mtukudzi expressed his feelings, judgments and commitments in the construction of political and religious identities in his songs. Mtukudzi’s political and religious songs are conveniently sampled. Political and religious discourse identities in Tuku’s music are niche areas that have not been explored from a discourse-linguistic perspective. 2022-10-10T07:27:29Z 2022-10-10T07:27:29Z 2022-09-11 Book chapter Jakaza, E., Mangeya, H. (2022). Stance Accounts of Political and Religious Identities in ‘Tuku’ Music. In: Nyakudya, M., Chinouriri, B., Mateveke, P., Chitando, E. (eds) The Cultural and Artistic Legacy of Oliver Mtukudzi. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97200-4_16 978-3-030-97199-1 978-3-030-97200-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97200-4_16 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/5190 en The Cultural and Artistic Legacy of Oliver Mtukudzi;Pages 247–261 open Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
spellingShingle Music
Political identity
Religious identity
Stance
Mtukudzi
Jakaza, Ernest
Mangeya, Hugh
Stance Accounts of Political and Religious Identities in ‘Tuku’ Music
title Stance Accounts of Political and Religious Identities in ‘Tuku’ Music
title_full Stance Accounts of Political and Religious Identities in ‘Tuku’ Music
title_fullStr Stance Accounts of Political and Religious Identities in ‘Tuku’ Music
title_full_unstemmed Stance Accounts of Political and Religious Identities in ‘Tuku’ Music
title_short Stance Accounts of Political and Religious Identities in ‘Tuku’ Music
title_sort stance accounts of political and religious identities in ‘tuku’ music
topic Music
Political identity
Religious identity
Stance
Mtukudzi
url https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97200-4_16
http://hdl.handle.net/11408/5190
work_keys_str_mv AT jakazaernest stanceaccountsofpoliticalandreligiousidentitiesintukumusic
AT mangeyahugh stanceaccountsofpoliticalandreligiousidentitiesintukumusic