Arrest The Music!

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Author: Tejumola Olaniyan

ISBN-10: 0253217180

ISBN-13: 9780253217189

Category: General & Miscellaneous Music Biography

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A lively musical study of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, one of Africa's most recognizable, popular, and controversial stars. Whether or not they know Fela and his music, readers will find this work invaluable for understanding the career of an African superstar and the politics of popular culture in contemporary Africa.

1Introduction : "living in the interregnum" : Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and the postcolonial incredible12The "apolitical" avant-pop hustler73The Afrobeat moralist244Dissident tunes : the political Afrobeat505Fela, Lagos, and the postcolonial state876On the shop floor : the social production of Afrobeat1087Pedagogue, pedagogy, and the pedagogic form1458The cosmopolitan nativist : Fela and the antinomies of postcolonial modernity1579The political, the libidinal16610Conclusion : Afrobeat after Fela175