Arrest the Music! - Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics

Informationen zum Autor Tejumola Olaniyan is Professor of English and African Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin! Madison. He is co-editor (with John Conteh-Morgan) of African Drama and Performance (IUP! 2004). He lives in Madison! Wisconsin. Klappentext A bold and energetic close-up on one of Africa's most popular and controversial stars. Zusammenfassung Features a close-up on one of Africa's most popular and controversial stars. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: "Living in the Interregnum": Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and the Postcolonial Incredible 2. The "Apolitical" Avant-Pop Hustler 3. The Afrobeat Moralist 4. Dissident Tunes: The Political Afrobeat 5. Fela! Lagos! and the Postcolonial State 6. On the Shop Floor: The Social Production of Afrobeat 7. Pedagogue! Pedagogy! and the Pedagogic Form 8. The Cosmopolitan Nativist: Fela and the Antinomies of Postcolonial Modernity 9. The Political! The Libidinal 10. Conclusion: Afrobeat After Fela

Product details

• Authors: Tejumola Olaniyan
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.10.2004
• EAN: 9780253344618
• ISBN: 978-0-253-34461-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: African Expressive Cultures; African Expressive Cultures
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs