Singing truth to power: youth existential struggles and popular music in Zimbabwe
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Abstract
Drawing on Zimdancehall youth music genre, this article examines how youth mobilise and deploy music to speak truth to power in creative and subversive ways. I focus on the music of popular youthful artists such as Winky D, Seh Calaz, and Platinum Prince to argue that Zimdancehall music has transformed into a genre and discursive space through which young people entertain and critique power and the excesses of political elites simultaneously. I assert that in authoritarian and repressive regimes, music, in this case Zimdancehall, acts as a form of resistance. Indeed, Zimdancehall has become a counter-hegemonic public sphere through which young people express their everyday struggles. In a space where violence is instrumentalised to silence critics, young people deploy creative tactics of political expression. I argue that regardless of repression, Zimdancehall has developed into a protest genre that entertains and critiques hegemonic forms of political power beyond the state reach.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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