@inproceedings{c709280d5a6147f8a1ff106fccdc1f8e,
title = "Your silence can seriously damage someone's health : getting Zimbabwe protest songs heard",
abstract = "It is not until the 1970s and 1980s that popular music becomes the medium for the message in the protest songs of Zimbabweans. The protest song becomes a voice for many who suffer in silence because they cannot speak up against what is going on - what is called mubikira. This article discusses how two recent popular protest songs about the ongoing political, social and humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe disseminate their message through lyrics, musical style and the media and technology, engaging with Street's (2006) distinction between music which intends to be political and music in which the politics derive from the interpretation.",
keywords = "protest songs, Zimbabwe",
author = "Diana Blom and \{Van Niekerk\}, Caroline and Richard Muranda",
year = "2012",
language = "English",
publisher = "International Association for the Study of Popular Music",
pages = "49--54",
booktitle = "Situating Popular Musics : IASPM 16th International Conference Proceedings : 27 June - 1 July 2011, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa",
note = "International Conference on Popular Music Studies ; Conference date: 27-06-2011",
}