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Queens of Afrobeat : women, play, and Fela Kuti's music rebellion / Dotun Ayobade.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ayobade, Dotun, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fela, 1938-1997--Friends and associates.
- Fela.
- Fela, 1938-1997.
- Fela, 1938-1997--Relations with women.
- Women singers--Nigeria.
- Women singers.
- Afrobeat--Nigeria--History and criticism.
- Afrobeat.
- Afrobeat--Social aspects--Nigeria.
- Popular culture--Nigeria.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 361 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2024]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Birth of a restless collective : how the "girls" converged
- From FRK to "Lady" : a revised genealogy of the music's other women
- To improvise a precarious freedom : before FESTAC 77
- Unknown soldier : the 1977 Kalakuta Invasion and the geopolitics of intimacy
- "Spirit catch am" : possessions, paranoia, and the tumultuous Egypt
- Facing the music : AIDS and alienatoin after Fela
- Where we fall is where we pick ourselves up from" : a legacy in fragments
- Conclusion : what Afrobeat owes women it may never repay.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Ayobade, Dotun. Queens of Afrobeat
- ISBN:
- 9780253068651
- 0253068657
- Publisher Number:
- 40032273396
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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