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<i>Fela!</i>: Fela Kuti, Bill T. Jones, and the Marketing of Black Masculine Excess on Broadway

2011; University of Hawaii Press; Volume: 34; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/bio.2011.0049

1529-1456

Francesca T. Royster,

Media, Gender, and Advertising

Choreographer Bill T. Jones and Nigerian Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti have both shaped careers that have confounded categorizations, exploring sometimes contradictory spaces of gender, sexuality, race, and national loyalty through performance. This essay considers the recent Broadway show Fela! , a biographical and performative exploration of Fela Kuti and his life, directed and choreographed by Jones, as a means of thinking about the queer interconnections between these two performers.