Jit

Jit is a Zimbabwean popular guitar music that emerged in the late 1970s and flowered in the 1980s, named for the jitterbug-style dancing it provokes. It is played by small guitar bands - interlocking electric guitars cycling short melodic figures over bass and drums, with group singing in Shona - at tempos faster and lighter than the related chimurenga. The *Bhundu Boys*, formed in Harare in 1980, defined the style on albums such as "Shabini" and "True Jit" and carried it to British audiences in the mid-1980s, while the *Four Brothers* sustained it at home with "Makorokoto".