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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Olaniyan, Tejumola
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2004]
Series:African expressive cultures.
Subjects:
Fela, > 1938-1997.
Musicians > Nigeria > Biography.
Afrobeat > Nigeria > History and criticism.
Table of 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.