Afrobeat! : Fela and the imagined continent /
In the seventies as signs of decay began to show in the capitalist experiment of the newly independent African countries, a "bard of the misrule" emerged on the streets of Lagos. Often shirtless and armed with his trademark saxophone, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti tore his way into popular culture w...
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Trenton, N.J. : Ibadan, Nigeria :
Africa World Press ; Co-published with Institute Français de Recherche en Afrique, University of Ibadan,
c2003
Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, c2003 Trenton, NJ : Ibadan, Nigeria : Africa World Press ; Co-published with Institute Français de Recherche en Afrique, [2003], ©2003 Trenton, NJ : Ibadan, Nigeria : Africa World Press ; Co-published with Institute Français de Recherche en Afrique, c2003 Trenton, NJ : Ibadan, Nigeria : c2003 Trenton, NJ : Ibadan, Nigeria : [2003] |
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| Summary: | In the seventies as signs of decay began to show in the capitalist experiment of the newly independent African countries, a "bard of the misrule" emerged on the streets of Lagos. Often shirtless and armed with his trademark saxophone, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti tore his way into popular culture with Afrobeat music. Blending ethno-traditional forms with the reigning highlife and jazz rhythms, Afrobeat drew lyrics from the flip side of neo-colonial society and Fela's London and American experience in the sixties. In the two decades that followed, Fela ruled the nights from Afrika Shrine, his signature night club, and the days from the turntables of the restless city dwellers along the Atlantic coastline. Fela's Afrobeat became a dynamic mode of expression in the social history of post-independent West Africa and generated a counterculture that bonded through music, drugs, resistance politics -- and ultimately, the nascence of an Afrocentric contemporary global culture "In the seventies, as signs of decay began to show in the capitalist experiment of the newly independent African countries, a "bard of the misrule" emerged on the streets of Lagos. Often shirtless and armed with his trademark saxophone, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti tore his way into popular culture with Afrobeat music. Blending ethno-traditional forms with the reigning highlife and jazz rhythms. Afrobeat drew lyrics from the flip side of neo-colonial society and Fela's London and American experience in the sixties. In the two decades that followed, Fela ruled the nights from Afrika Shrine, his signature night club, and the days from the turntables of the restless city dwellers along the Atlantic coastline. Fela's Afrobeat became a dynamic mode of expression in the social history of post-independent West Africa and generated a counterculture that bonded through music, drugs, resistance politics - and ultimately, the nascence of an Afrocentric contemporary global culture." -- Publisher's description "In the seventies, as signs of decay began to show in the capitalist experiment of the newly independent African countries, a "bard of the misrule" emerged on the streets of Lagos. Often shirtless and armed with his trademark saxophone, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti tore his way into popular culture with Afrobeat music. Blending ethno-traditional forms with the reigning highlife and jazz rhythms Afrobeat drew lyrics from the flip side of neo-colonial society and Fela's London and American experience in the sixties." "In the two decades that followed, Fela ruled the nights from Afrika Shrine, his signature night club, and the days from the turntables of the restless city dwellers along the Atlantic coastline. Fela's Afrobeat became a dynamic mode of expression in the social history of post-independent West Africa and generated a counterculture that bonded through music, drugs, resistance politics - and ultimately, the nascence of an Afrocentric contemporary global culture."--BOOK JACKET |
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| Physical Description: | 288 p. : ill. ; 22cm xxviii, 288 p. : ill. ; 21 cm xxviii, 288 p. : ill. ; 22 cm xxviii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Discography: p. 237-254 Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-235) and index Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-235), discography and index Includes discography |
| ISBN: | 0865438897 (hard cover) 0865438897 0865438900 (pbk.) 0865438900 1592210716 (hard cover) 1592210716 1592210724 (pbk.) : 1592210724 (pbk.) 1592210724 1592210961 (hard cover) 1592210961 159221097X (pbk.) 159221097X 9780865438897 (hard cover) 9780865438903 (pbk.) 9781592210718 (hard cover) 9781592210725 (pbk.) 9781592210961 (hard cover) 9781592210978 (pbk.) |