Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-326), discography (pages 311-326) and index.

Introduction: cross-cultural encounters: song, power, and being -- Missionary witchcrafting African being: cultural disarmament -- Purging the "heathen" song, mis/grafting the missionary hymn -- "Too many don'ts": reinforcing, disrupting the criminalization of African musical cultures -- Architectures of control: African urban re/creation -- The "tribal dance" as a colonial alibi: ethnomusicology and the tribalization of African being -- Chimanjemanje: performing and contesting colonial modernity -- The many moods of "Skokiaan": criminalized leisure, underclass defiance, and self-narration -- Usable pasts: crafting Madzimbabwe through memory, tradition, song -- Cultures of resistance: genealogies of Chimurenga song -- Jane Lungile Ngwenya: a transgenerational conversation -- Epilogue: postcolonial legacies: song, power, and knowledge production.