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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olaniyan, Tejumola.

Series:

African expressive cultures.

African expressive cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musicians--Nigeria--Biography.

Musicians.

Afrobeat--Nigeria--History and criticism.

Afrobeat.

Fela, 1938-1997.

Fela.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-228), discography (p. [229]-232), and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-07227-7

0-253-11034-3

OCLC:

475970831