Nationalists, cosmopolitans, and popular music in Zimbabwe

Part One: Critical Foundations. Social Identities and Indigenous Musical Practices

Part Two: Colonialism and the Rise of Urban Popular Music. Indigenous Music and Dance in Mbare Township, 1930-1960

The Settler-State and Indigenous Music during the Federation Years

The African Middle Class: Concerts, Cultural Discourse, and All That Jazz

Part Three: Musical Nationalism. Music, Emotion, and Cultural Nationalism, 1958-1963

Musical Nationalism and Chimurenga Songs of the 1970s

Part Four: Guitar Bands and Cosmopolitan Youth Culture. On the Margins of Nationalism: Acoustic Guitarists and Guitar Bands of the 1960s

Stars of the Seventies: The Rise of Indigenous-Based Guitar Bands

Part Five: Globalization Begins at Home. Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Popular Music after 1980.