Cultural Production in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 1984-1991

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Title:	Cultural Production in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 1984-1991
Author:	Cameron, Sheila
Year:	2002
Periodical:	Critical Arts: A Journal of Media Studies
Volume:	16
Issue:	2
Pages:	76-93
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Zimbabwe
Subjects:	cultural policy theatre Urbanization and Migration Architecture and the Arts Literature, Mass Media and the Press
External link:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560240285310141
Abstract:	Using a naturalistic paradigm, this article explores influences on cultural policies and production in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, in the decade after independence. The work is based on published documents, unpublished archives and the lived experience. While teaching science in Bulawayo in 1984-1996, the author was involved as an amateur in the organization and management of a wide variety of cultural productions. The article discusses cultural politics and policies around the Bulawayo Music Revival Show 1987 and the Zimbabwe Union of Musicians, introducing a mimetic treatment. It constructs a theoretical framework in terms of tacit policies, proto-policies and documented policies to analyse adaptive processes among cultural workers implementing plans and policies, before presenting evidence and examples. Bibliogr., notes, sum. [Journal abstract]