Talk:Music of Zimbabwe/Archive 1

Proposed merge with Museve
Museve has redirected here since 2016 Other genres are summarised in context at Music of Zimbabwe instead of having their own articles. McGeddon (talk) 18:48, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Attempting to restore and improve
there are many improvements that could be made, but the main issue of adding back the changes from June 2016 have been resolved.

It looks like the page was significantly reduced in June 2016 due to lack of references creating the appearance of original research. While the change may have been justified, I think the result is much worse than the page prior to that reduction. I'm about to revert the page to the state it was in before June 2016 and then will proceed to add references, clean things up, and replicate the few changes that have occurred on the reduced page over the past year. Please have patience. -IGTaylor (talk) 18:16, 15 September 2017 (UTC)


 * I did what I can for today. There remain sections that appear as original research and need better references, and the page is overly dependent on a single (excellent) reference by Kendall and Eyre. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IGTaylor (talk • contribs) 19:37, 15 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Cleaned up page a bit more and added a variety of images -IGTaylor (talk) 23:01, 18 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Hello my name is Lily. My partner Tyler and I would like to add some more information to this Wikipedia page on the mbira. We were working on a college project together about Zimbabwe culture pertaining to the mbira. Lilykatscott (talk) 17:46, 1 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Welcome Lilykatscott. Please make any changes you think will improve the page. Also please consider making contributions to the specific mbira page and trying to keep the mbira section here from overwhelming the article as it is already more complete than many other sections. -IGTaylor (talk) 18:48, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

More info on contemporary music needed
All the sections in this page related to Zimbabwean music from the past 20 years are pretty limited and the genre-specific pages that are linked within them don't have many citations to support them.

For future reference, here are a few citations that could help with a couple of these areas:

Some sources for info on Zimdancehall
 * https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/arts/zimdancehall-zimbabwe-music-politics-mugabe-a9107711.html
 * https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319412277_Zimdancehall_and_the_Peace_Crisis_in_Zimbabwe
 * https://www.sundaymail.co.zw/zimdancehall-overdrive-the-journey/amp

Some sources for info on info on Urban Grooves:
 * https://www.musicinafrica.net/magazine/rise-and-fall-urban-grooves-zimbabwe
 * https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/18125980802633045?journalCode=rmuz20
 * https://www.musicinafrica.net/magazine/rise-and-fall-urban-grooves-zimbabwe

-IGTaylor (talk) 21:42, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

More citations needed
The article looks good. However, several sections lack of references. It can be improved with more inline citations. --Lugskneel (talk) 23:22, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

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