Afrobeat! Fela and the Imagined Continent
In the seventies, as signs of decay began to show in the capitalist experiment of the newly independent African countries, a “bard of the misrule” emerged on the streets of Lagos. Often shirtless and armed with his trademark saxophone, Fela Anikulapo Kuti tore his way into popular culture with Afrob...
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| author | Olorunyomi, Sola |
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| description | In the seventies, as signs of decay began to show in the capitalist experiment of the newly independent African countries, a “bard of the misrule” emerged on the streets of Lagos. Often shirtless and armed with his trademark saxophone, Fela Anikulapo Kuti tore his way into popular culture with Afrobeat music. Blending ethno-traditional forms with the reigning highlife and jazz rhythms, Afrobeat drew lyrics from the flip side of neo-colonial society and Fela’s London and American experience in the sixties. In the two decades that followed, Fela ruled the nights from Afrika Shrine, his signature night club, and the days from the turntables of the restless city dwellers along the Atlantic coastline. Fela’s Afrobeat became a dynamic mode of expression in the social history of post-independent West Africa and generated a counterculture that bonded through music, drugs, resistance politics—and ultimately, the nascence of an Afrocentric contemporary global culture. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1135212024-03-27T16:35:03Z Afrobeat! Fela and the Imagined Continent Olorunyomi, Sola African music Afrobeat Nigeria activism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history In the seventies, as signs of decay began to show in the capitalist experiment of the newly independent African countries, a “bard of the misrule” emerged on the streets of Lagos. Often shirtless and armed with his trademark saxophone, Fela Anikulapo Kuti tore his way into popular culture with Afrobeat music. Blending ethno-traditional forms with the reigning highlife and jazz rhythms, Afrobeat drew lyrics from the flip side of neo-colonial society and Fela’s London and American experience in the sixties. In the two decades that followed, Fela ruled the nights from Afrika Shrine, his signature night club, and the days from the turntables of the restless city dwellers along the Atlantic coastline. Fela’s Afrobeat became a dynamic mode of expression in the social history of post-independent West Africa and generated a counterculture that bonded through music, drugs, resistance politics—and ultimately, the nascence of an Afrocentric contemporary global culture. 2023-09-11T07:32:26Z 2023-09-11T07:32:26Z 2022 book ONIX_20230911_9782493207098_16 9782493207098 9789785934229 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/113521 eng Africae Monographs image/jpeg Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://books.openedition.org/africae/6133 Africae 10.4000/books.africae.6133 10.4000/books.africae.6133 cddbdd6c-d885-4aab-bf8b-6b4493344d35 9782493207098 9789785934229 xxi-256 Ibadan open access |
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