Album Review
2020; Wiley; Volume: 32; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1525/jpms.2020.32.1.4
ISSN1533-1598
Autores Tópico(s)Music History and Culture
ResumoResearch Article| March 01 2020 Album Review: Angélique Kidjo, Celia (Decca Records France, 2019) Brian Barone Brian Barone Boston University Email: barone@bu.edu Brian Barone is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology and ethnomusicology at Boston University. His dissertation project focuses on the circulation of African musics as a catalyst of a long and continuing modernity around the Atlantic rim. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Popular Music Studies (2020) 32 (1): 4–9. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2020.32.1.4 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Brian Barone; Album Review: Angélique Kidjo, Celia (Decca Records France, 2019). Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 March 2020; 32 (1): 4–9. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2020.32.1.4 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search The Beninese singer and songwriter Angélique Kidjo knows that to cover a song is to make both music and an argument, and her 2018 release Remain in Light puts this fact to good use. Track by track, the record reimagines the celebrated 1980 album of the same name by New York post-punk eminences Talking Heads. Through incisive new arrangements, Kidjo underlines and reinvigorates the Afropop effects and Africanist philosophy that Talking Heads lifted as the inspiration for their supposedly most innovative work. She and her band play the album as the profoundly grooving Afropop it might have been, rather than as the art school pop pointillism it was—it's tempting even to... © 2020 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, https://www.ucpress.edu/journals/reprints-permissions.2020 You do not currently have access to this content.
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