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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820254903321

Autore

Olaniyan Tejumola

Titolo

Arrest the Music! [[electronic resource] ] : Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, 2004

ISBN

1-282-07227-7

0-253-11034-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

781.63/092 B

781.63092B

782.42164092

Soggetti

Musicians - Nigeria - Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

cover; toc; acknowledgments; 1 Introduction ""Living In The Interregnum"": Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and the Postcolonial Incredible; 2 The "Apolitical" Avant-Pop Hustler; 3 The Afrobeat Moralist; 4 Dissident Tunes: The Political Afrobeat; 5 Fela, Lagos, and the Postcolonial State; 6 On the Shop Floor: The Social Production of Afrobeat; 7 Pedagogue, Pedagogy, and the Pedagogic Form; 8 The Cosmopolitan Nativist: Fela and the Antinomies of Postcolonial Modernity; 9 The Political, the Libidinal; 10 Conclusion: Afrobeat after Fela; Notes; Bibliography; Discography; General Index; Song Index

Sommario/riassunto

""Olaniyan has given us a profound and beautifully integrated book                which culminates in a persuasive interpretation of the relationship between Fela's                apparently incompatible presentational selves.... The book's accessible and                evocative prose is in itself a kind of homage to Fela's continual ability to seduce                and astonish.... This is such an attractive book you feel like... ransacking your                collection for Fela tapes."" -- Karin Barber""... an                indispensable companion to Fela's music and a rich sour