Breakout : profiles in African rhythm

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Breakout : profiles in African rhythm

Gary Stewart

University of Chicago Press, 1992

  • pbk.

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注記

Discography: p. 137-145

Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-149) and index

収録内容

  • Soukous chic : Kanda Bongo Man
  • God of the guitar : Docteur Nico
  • Toujours O.K. : Franco and l'Orchestre O.K. Jazz
  • Ubongo man : Remmy Ongala
  • The palm wine picker : S.E. Rogie
  • A vanishing breed : Big Fayia
  • Graceland's heartbeat : Francis Fuster
  • Dance the highlife : Nana Ampadu
  • High times, hard times : Hedzoleh Soundz
  • The beat goes on : Olatunji
  • The dawn of afro-beat : Orlando Julius Ekemode
  • Soul brother number one : Joni Haastrup
  • An African musician : Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
  • Politics and papa's land : Sonny Okosuns

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

ISBN 9780226774053

内容説明

Based on exclusive interviews, "Breakout" tells the often riveting personal stories of fourteen popular musicians some well known, others not from Zaire, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. The first book on African pop music to look closely at the lives of the musicians themselves, "Breakout" deals with four African musical genres: "soukous, highlife, afro-beat, " and "palm wine." Amid Africa's deepening economic and political crises of the last two decades, African musicians who developed these genres faced the need to cross cultural boundaries, or "break out," and achieve a hit in the international marketplace. Challenging conventional assumptions, Gary Stewart demonstrates for the first time the true dimensions of this struggle to create music that will qualify as both an authentic cultural expression and an export commodity. From accounts of the outrageous Fela, who snipes at African leaders and recounts his days with Isis in ancient Egypt, to S. E. Rogie, who lurches from the pinnacle of stardom in West Africa to delivering pizzas in California, to Olatunji, who finds new life with the Grateful Dead, these are the stories of Africans straddling traditional life and an encroaching modernity and also the stories of third world musicians surmounting political and economic chaos at home and carrying their music to a world dominated by Western cultural and economic power."
巻冊次

pbk. ISBN 9780226774060

内容説明

Based on exclusive interviews, Breakout tells the often riveting personal stories of fourteen popular musicians--some well known, others not--from Zaire, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. The first book on African pop music to look closely at the lives of the musicians themselves, Breakout deals with four African musical genres: soukous, highlife, afro-beat, and palm wine. Amid Africa's deepening economic and political crises of the last two decades, African musicians who developed these genres faced the need to cross cultural boundaries, or "break out," and achieve a hit in the international marketplace. Challenging conventional assumptions, Gary Stewart demonstrates for the first time the true dimensions of this struggle to create music that will qualify as both an authentic cultural expression and an export commodity. From accounts of the outrageous Fela, who snipes at African leaders and recounts his days with Isis in ancient Egypt, to S. E. Rogie, who lurches from the pinnacle of stardom in West Africa to delivering pizzas in California, to Olatunji, who finds new life with the Grateful Dead, these are the stories of Africans straddling traditional life and an encroaching modernity--and also the stories of third world musicians surmounting political and economic chaos at home and carrying their music to a world dominated by Western cultural and economic power.

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