Zimbabwe: Changing Music Styles in Zimbabwe

18 January 2016

Music In the 1960s Rhodesia, during the heart of rock music, Beatlemania, bell bottoms, flower power, hippies and soul music, we were subjected to all these crazes and anyone who did not aspire to these was regarded as "not cool".

The reason was simple. The country was controlled by white Rhodesians and their culture is what everyone was exposed to. Music coming out of Rhodesia Broadcasting Corporation was mainly from Great Britain and America. We listened to the likes of Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple , Grand Funk, Crosby, Stills and Nash, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard, Otis Redding and James Brown to mention only a few.

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