Arrest the music! : Fela and his rebel art and politics / / Tejumola Olaniyan

• Autore: Olaniyan Tejumola
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 781.63/092; B
• Soggetto topico: Musicians - Nigeria; Afrobeat - Nigeria - History and criticism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-228), discography (p. [229]-232), and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : "Living in the interregnum" : Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and the postcolonial incredible -- The "apolitical" avant-pop hustler -- The afrobeat moralist -- Dissident tunes : the political afrobeat -- Fela, Lagos, and the postcolonial state -- On the shop floor : the social production of afrobeat -- Pedagogue, pedagogy, and the pedagogic form -- The cosmopolitan nativist : Fela and the antinomies of postcolonial modernity -- The political, the libidinal -- Conclusion : afrobeat after Fela.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Arrest the Music
• ISBN: 1-282-07227-7; 0-253-11034-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820254903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: African expressive cultures.