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Author Olaniyan, Tejumola.

Title Arrest the music! : Fela and his rebel art and politics / Tejumola Olaniyan.

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series African expressive cultures
African expressive cultures.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references, discography and indexes.
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.
Summary 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.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Fela, 1938-1997.
Fela, 1938-1997.
Fela, 1938-
Fela.
Musicians -- Nigeria -- Biography.
Musicians.
Nigeria.
Afrobeat -- Nigeria -- History and criticism.
Afrobeat.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Olaniyan, Tejumola. Arrest the music! Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2004 0253344611 (DLC) 2004002138 (OCoLC)54372536
ISBN 0253110343 (electronic book)
9780253110343 (electronic book)
0253344611 (hardback)
9780253344618 (hardback)
0253217180 (paperback)
9780253217189 (paperback)