Mampi the Queen Diva: Articulating Feminism in Zambia's Fast Music By
Title Page Mampi the Queen Diva: Articulating Feminism in Zambia’s Fast Music by Mathew Tembo Bachelor of Education with Music, University of Zambia, 2009 Master of Music, Northern Illinois University, 2013 Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts University of Pittsburgh 2019 Committee Membership Page UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH DIETRICH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES This thesis was presented by Mathew Tembo It was defended on August 21, 2018 and approved by Dr. Andrew Weintraub, Committee Chair, Music Department Dr. Michael Heller, Committee Member, Music Department Dr. Shalini Ayyagari, Committee Member, Music Department Thesis Advisor: Dr. Andrew Weintraub, Professor, Music Department ii Copyright © by Mathew Tembo 2019 iii Abstract Mampi the Queen Diva: Articulating Feminism in Zambia’s Fast Music Mathew Tembo, MA, Ethnomusicology University of Pittsburgh, 2019 Drawing on fieldwork and published literature on Zambia’s popular music and feminism, I analyze how Zambia’s fast music has provided spaces in which Zambian women musicians articulate feminism as they contest and challenge patriarchal hegemony. Zambia’s fast music is produced quickly, for profit, and consumed by a mass audience. Also colloquially known as Zed Beats, fast music blends indigenous Zambian rhythms with R&B, reggae, rap, Jamaican dancehall, hip-hop, and other popular music genres. Zambia’s fast music is sung in local languages, mostly urban vernaculars Bemba, Nyanja, and English, and celebrates the pleasures of the body. This thesis consists of three main sections. In the first section, I introduce Zambia’s fast music.
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