Urban Grooves: Performing Resistance in Zimbabwe's Urban Music.

      Аннотация: There are two broad categories of hip hop music in Zimbabwe defined by closeness to American hip hop and level of distribution in Zimbabwe. The author defines these broad categories as urban grooves and underground hip hop. Urban grooves is what I call Zimbabwean hip hop; it is a localized version of hip hop that Zimbabweans have developed from American hip hop and Jamaican dancehall, mediated by the people’s local peculiarities such has language and cultural sensibilities. The underground hip hop is, in fact, American hip hop in Zimbabwe, rendered predominantly in the English language oftentimes with fake American accents, although there is a rising use of local languages which, however, are expressed with American sensibilities. For the majority of Zimbabwean hip hop artists, whether as practitioners of urban grooves or underground hip hop, politics is something they pretend to shun and only express, knowingly or unknowingly, using ambivalent lyrics and dissonant sound, thereby making urban grooves a deceptive genre.

Ключевые слова: hip hop music in Zimbabwe, urban grooves, underground hip hop, Wonderful G. Bere, Deception in Zimbabwe’s Hip Hop Music