Arrest the music! : Fela and his rebel art and politics
Afrobeat Musicians BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY MUSIC sähkökirjat
Indiana University Press
2004
EISBN 9780253110343
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.
More than a biography about Africa's most controversial and celebrated musician, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Olaniyan's book is an anatomy of the way music, rebellion, and political activism can intertwine so tightly that none may be considered on its own.
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.
More than a biography about Africa's most controversial and celebrated musician, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Olaniyan's book is an anatomy of the way music, rebellion, and political activism can intertwine so tightly that none may be considered on its own.
