Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-7471-5 (ISBN)
Adeshina Afolayan is a senior lecturer of philosophy at University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His areas of specialization include African philosophy, political philosophy and cultural studies. He is the editor of Auteuring Nollywood (2014), author of Philosophy and National Development in Nigeria (2018), the coeditor of the Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy (2017), and the coeditor of Pentecostalism and Politics in Africa (2018). Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He has several books to his credit, cutting across history, cultural studies, and African studies. Professor Falola holds 7 honorary doctorates, several prestigious lifetime career awards (including the Distinguished Africanist Award from the African Studies Association). A total of 9 Fetschriften have been written in his honour on the creation of the construction of the subaltern. He served as Vice President of UNESCO’s International Scientific Committee, Slave Route Project from 2011 – 2015 and currently on the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellows Programme and the International Committee of the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute at UNISA.
Preface
Introduction
1. Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and Fela Studies
2. Fela in Historical Perspectives
Part A History And Culture
3. Natal Tales: Fela and His Family
4. The Performative Rhythm: From Highlife to Afrobeat
5. The “Woman Question”: Fela and His Women
Part B Fela, Art, and Politics
6. Fela and Postcolonial Political Economy of Nigeria
7. The Politics of Fela’s Music
8. Fela’s Use of Language
9. Postcoloniality and Art in Fela and His Afrobeat
Part C Fela and Felasophy
10. Cultural Imperatives in Fela's Music
11. Fela's Thoughts on African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
12. Fela and Pan-Africanism
13. Blackism: Fela’s Political Philosophy
14. Freedom and Excesses: Fela and Social Eccentricities
Part D Fela In The Future
15. Post-Fela: Afrobeat as Memorialization
16. Fela as a Legacy
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 11.02.2022 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 572 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5013-7471-0 / 1501374710 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-7471-5 / 9781501374715 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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