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{{Infobox music genre | {{Infobox music genre | ||
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==Decline== | ==Decline== | ||
By the late 1970s, the glow had faded. Inflation and unemployment spiked as the price of copper fell. Music bootlegging was on the rise, and money to record and tour dried up. People preferred to spend on their livelihood rather than buy music records or attend concerts. Tastes were changing, too, as disco spread like a plague across the country. | {{Main|Zamrock}} | ||
By the late 1970s, the glow had faded. Inflation and unemployment spiked as the price of copper fell. Music bootlegging was on the rise, and money to record and tour dried up. People preferred to spend on their livelihood rather than buy music records or attend concerts. Tastes were changing, too, as disco spread like a plague across the country. Jagari, who had been attending college since 1977, left the band in 1980 to become a full-time music teacher in Lusaka then a miner. He married his wife, Grace, in 1983 and struggled to support a growing family on a teacher's salary.<ref>[http://afrobeat-music.blogspot.com/2012/04/witch-up-from-underground.html The Witch: “Up From The Underground“]</ref> | |||
Musical piracy hit Zamrock artists hard, and with no safeguards in place, bootleggers in neighbouring countries were able to make money by copying and selling the music of Zambian artists. Many Zamrock bands were disbanded and musicians thus left the profession to find other work to sustain themselves and their families | Musical piracy hit Zamrock artists hard, and with no safeguards in place, bootleggers in neighbouring countries were able to make money by copying and selling the music of Zambian artists. Many Zamrock bands were disbanded and musicians thus left the profession to find other work to sustain themselves and their families.<ref name=guardian/> | ||
The Zamrockers lived an extravagant lifestyle, but were very ignorant of the dangers of HIV and AIDS. Back then the disease was completely unknown – other than as something that only affected homosexuals.<ref name=redbull/> This led to the demise of most artists. | The Zamrockers lived an extravagant lifestyle, but were very ignorant of the dangers of HIV and AIDS. Back then the disease was completely unknown – other than as something that only affected homosexuals.<ref name=redbull/> This led to the demise of most artists. | ||
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*{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nxybJFMf8A|420|| This is "Zamrock!!" - [[Emmanuel “Jagari” Chanda|Jagari]] & [[Rikki Ililonga|Rikk]]|frame}} | *{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nxybJFMf8A|420|| This is "Zamrock!!" - [[Emmanuel “Jagari” Chanda|Jagari]] & [[Rikki Ililonga|Rikk]]|frame}} | ||
*{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDDqGnO3WQQ|420|| Zamrock Survivors: Rikki and Jagari |frame}} | *{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDDqGnO3WQQ|420|| Zamrock Survivors: [[Rikki Ililonga|Rikk]] and [[Emmanuel “Jagari” Chanda|Jagari]] |frame}} | ||
*{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYhZlOOPu_8|420|| Interview: Emmanuel | *{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYhZlOOPu_8|420|| Interview: [[Emmanuel “Jagari” Chanda]] in Madrid 2011 |frame}} | ||
*{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4i_8tyHTpw|420|| "Sansa Kuwa" - Zamrock at the Banlieues Blues 2013 |frame}} | |||
}} | }} | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[Zambian music]] | *[[Zambian music]] | ||
*[[The Witch|The W.I.T.C.H.]] | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
