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... Items Labour is spending its way to failure Afrobeat: the Fela Project pays tribute to Fela Kuti' ...
2005 - Gale Group | Sunday Times HA GDA
... Weapon, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, arguably the inventor of Afrobeat, pronounced that: 'My name is Anikulapo: I have ... on in the imagination. Over the last decade, Afrobeat has transformed in both terminology and practice. For some, Afrobeat has morphed into an 'apolitical genre by an ... sons Femi and Seun Kuti continue to play Afrobeat as originally proposed, thus maintaining a relative patent ... the current usage relies on simulation and as Afrobeats. This paper focuses on the practices of a selection of Afrobeats musicians who have appropriated the text, synthesised the ...
Tópico(s): Asian Studies and History
2020 - Taylor & Francis | African Studies
Gráinne Gilmore, Giles Smith, David Budworth Deputy Personal Finance Editor, David Wood, Andrew Robson, Janice Turner, David Almond, Philip Marsden, Christina Hardyment, John McNamara, Victoria Glendinning, Richard Ellis, Peggy Bazlinton, David Brown, Mark Stafford, Alexandra Frean, Caroline Stacey, Sam Pilger, Mark Atherton Personal Investor, Tom Whitel, Frances Gibb Legal Editor, Amanda Ursell, Simon Barnes, David Aaronovitch, Jane MacQuitty, Tom Dyckhoff, Magnus Linklater, Paul Bompard, Simon Hills, Neil Barraclough, Robert Lindsay, Catherine Boyle, David Rose, Carol Putnam, John Mulvey, Sarah Urwin Jones, Tony Turnbull, Emma Cook, Mike Harvey, Joe Beer, Philip Howard, Julia Brookes, MacKenzie Crook, Christine Seib, David Chater, Kate Wighton, James Bone, James Ducker, Melissa Katsoulis, James Alexander-Sinclair, Dominic Wells, Clive Davis, Carol Smillie, Rachel Campbell-Johnston, Patrick Kidd, Will Pavia, Graham Stewart, Lauren Thompson, Sam Marlowe, Henrietta Branwell, Wendy Ide, Jeremy Whittle, John Bungey, Polly Beard, Lucy Bannerman, Philippe Naughton, Chris Sullivan, Giles Coren, Rosie Millard, Vivienne Parry, Martin Fletcher, Dr Copperfield, Pat Gibson, Nancy Durrant, Jane MacArtney, Rob Crilly, Hannah Fletcher, Emma Magnus, Rachel Sylvester, Mill Millington, Hilary Rose, Francis Elliott, Vinny Lee, Jack Malvern, Tom Bawden, Steve Bird, Dominic Walsh, Debra Craine, Ruth Corbett, Dr Mark J. Walport Director, Gary Jacob, Tom Charity, Allan Simmons, Tim Reid, Jeanette Winterson, Angela Jameson Industrial Correspondent, Laura Lovett, Dalya Alberge Arts Correspondent, Tom Gatti, Jo Morris, Rosemary Duffy, Peter Millar, Doug Johnstone, Elaine Feinstein, Dr Rosalyn Proops Officer, Nick Wyke, Priya Elan, Sophie Harris, Ian Belcher, Rhys Blakely, Valerie Elliott Consumer Editor, Adam LeBor, Mark Wilkinson, Charles Bremner, Jonathan Richards, Donald McLaren, Ron Lewis, Ben MacHell, Lucy Sweeney, Graham Garton, Tim Teeman, Susan Thompson, Derwent May, Angela Jameson, Kate Muir, Sir Rodney Brooke, Aggie MacKenzie, Richard Hobson Deputy Cricket Correspondent, Russell Kempson, Lisa Byrne, Bee Wilson, Ed Potton, Stephen Anderton, Dr Patricia Hamilton President, Ann Longmuir, Justin Rose, Clive James, David Lister, Mark Atherton, Gerard Baker, US Editor, John Westerby, Sarah Vine, Lisa Armstrong, Jane Wheatley, David Lawrenson, John Hopkins, Sally Baker, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Pete Paphides, Simon de Bruxelles, Sheera Frenkel, Rob Wright, John Hopkins Golf Correspondent, Christina Koning, Neil Harman Tennis Correspondent, Raymond Keene, Suzi Godson, Richard Siklos, Kate Saunders, Billy Bowden, John Russell Taylor, Gordon Ramsay, Kaveh Solhekol, Richard Lloyd Parry Asia Editor, Roger Phillips, Rick Jones, Chris Campling, Alice Thomson, Adam Fresco Crime Correspondent, David Davis, Cathy Harris, Patrick Hosking, Laura Deeley, Rebecca O'connor, Ross Leckie, Erica Wagner, Marcel Berlins, Emily Diamand, James Charles, Ruth Gledhill Religion correspondent, Nick Hasell, Peter Dixon, Barbara Lantin, Thomasina Miers, Tom Whipple, Lucy Powell, Margaret Reynolds, Carolyn Asome, Kevin Maher, Julian Muscat, Paul Simons, Adam Fresco, Nicholas Clee, Barbara Gowdy, Steve Jelbert, Carla Bruni, Nigel Kendall, Anne Ashworth, Joanna Pitman, Dominic Kennedy, Mike Mulvihill, Bettany Hughes, Richard Ehrlich, Robert Crampton, Steve Hawkes, Thomas Catán, Professor Stephen O'rahilly Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine, Craig Lord, Natasha Cooper, Dominic Maxwell, Prue White, Matthew Parris, Mark Bridge, Michèle Roberts, Chris Dillow, Amanda Craig, Sophie Yu, Tim Wapshott, Caitlin Moran, Michael Austin, Sheila Keating, Neil Fisher, Iain Finlayson, Peter Riddell, Bridget Prentice, MP, Maurice Lawson, Ben MacIntyre, Bess Twiston Davies, Joe Clay, David Hutcheon, Guy Barter, Philip Webster, Neville Jones, Jacqui Goddard, Lucia van der Post, John Naish, Herbie Knott, Martin Waller, Mark Henderson, Nick Owen, James Jackson, Patrick Foster, Mark Baldwin, Carl Mortished World Business Editor, Anna Shepard, Benedict Nightingale, Louise Cohen, Rick Broadbent Athletics Correspondent, Dr Thomas Stuttaford, Syd Lexis, Stephen Dalton, Richard Morrison, Tom Chesshyre, James Christopher, Alice Miles, Michael Evans, Alan Jackson, Matt Roberts, Steve Hawkes Retail Correspondent, Muhammad Abdul Bari, Kim Newman, Mike Atherton Chief Cricket Correspondent, Will Hide, David Robertson, Sir John Bell President, Bill Frindall, Miranda Bryant,
... Sonic360, TMS £11.99) Various Artists Jazz/world Afrobeat Nirvana (Vampisoul, TMS £6.99) Willie Nelson and ...
2008 - Gale Group | TDA
Anikulapo-Kuti's afrobeat occupies a pivotal position in Nigeria's musical continuum and socio-political discourse. Through Fela, a new medium of ... style and content that characterized Fela's music. Afrobeat, a syncopated fusion of jazz, flank, and African ... United States in 1969 that cemented marriage between afrobeat and On this journey, encountered America's 'Black ... more to consider. Branching away from collective of afrobeat experts and enthusiasts, this paper urges a rethinking ...
Tópico(s): Musicology and Musical Analysis
2009 - University of Illinois Press | Black Music Research Journal
... 2. The Apolitical Avant-Pop Hustler 3. The Afrobeat Moralist 4. Dissident Tunes: The Political Afrobeat 5. Fela, Lagos, and the Postcolonial State 6. On the Shop Floor: The Social Production of Afrobeat 7. Pedagogue, Pedagogy, and the Pedagogic Form 8. ... Modernity 9. The Political, The Libidinal 10. Conclusion: Afrobeat After Fela Notes Bibliography Discography Index
Tópico(s): Media, Gender, and Advertising
2005 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
... Fela Kuti, James Brown and the Invention of Afrobeat Alexander Stewart (bio) Evoking the image of ships ... of the jazz, funk, and soul-infused genre Afrobeat, recalled: It was incredible how my head was ... countercultural dissident icon. From Palmwine and Highlife to Afrobeat and Beyond With its proximity to maritime commerce ...
Tópico(s): Race, History, and American Society
2013 - American studies | American studies
... were fondly known, became indispensable symbols of the Afrobeat movement. Yet, their contributions to Afrobeat have enjoyed no sustained research. This essay argues ... a nuanced understanding of the Queens' contributions to Afrobeat as well as their quests for individual and ... not only rethinks the Queens' contributions to the Afrobeat subculture, but it also reconstitutes the everyday as ...
Tópico(s): Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
2017 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of African Cultural Studies
... performative representations prioritised in the multimodal discourses of Afrobeats music videos are implicated in post-feminist sensibilities ... the multimodal discourses of a small corpus of Afrobeats music videos–no more than sociocultural façades as ... the PhD project’s larger corpus of 25 Afrobeats music videos, their accompanying song lyrics, as well ...
Tópico(s): Media Studies and Communication
2021 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Sociology
The social morality of Afrobeats in Nigeria often evokes reactive emotions of approbation and obloquy. While some critics contend that hip hop has deleterious effects ... as many adherents of Abrahamism dissociate themselves from Afrobeats claiming that it promotes vulgarity, and is not ... its central theme, though the music sometimes copies Afrobeats style. In this study, the antipathy of religious ... hip hop proponents. The study critiques some Nigerian Afrobeats songs to confound the conventionalisation of the music ...
Tópico(s): Social and Cultural Dynamics
2020 - Taylor & Francis | Contemporary Music Review
... the musical styles known as bossa nova and afrobeat, I ask: Given that globalisation/capitalism promotes exchange, ...
Tópico(s): Musicology and Musical Analysis
2016 - PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO | Contexto Internacional
... Allen, the rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat. Conversational, inviting, and packed with telling anecdotes, Allen' ...
Tópico(s): Music History and Culture
2014 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
... contemporary electronic dance music, including contemporary hiplife and afrobeats, is followed by case studies. In the case ... Breezy’s vertically sparse, minimalist Hip-hop influenced afrobeats No. 1 hit, ‘Tonga,’ is analysed using ecological ...
Tópico(s): Music Technology and Sound Studies
2016 - | Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation
Tópico(s): Media, Gender, and Advertising
1986 - The MIT Press | The Drama Review TDR
... of the world's wildest rockstar. Fela created Afrobeat, an infectious mix of American funk and jazz ...
Tópico(s): Music History and Culture
2004 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
... fans call him, is renowned for his distinctive "Afrobeat" sound (itself a masterly blend of diverse forms), ...
Tópico(s): Asian Studies and History
2001 - Indiana University Press | Research in African Literatures
... fans call him, is renowned for his distinctive "Afrobeat" sound (itself a masterly blend of diverse forms), ...
Tópico(s): Theater, Performance, and Music History
2001 - Indiana University Press | Research in African Literatures
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 ...
Tópico(s): Media, Gender, and Advertising
2011 - University of Hawaii Press | Biography
Nigerian Afrobeat musician, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, is a political maverick not only because of the depth of his musical ... Fela's artistic commitment emanates from the genre Afrobeat through which he entrenched his musical ideology of ...
Tópico(s): Latin American and Latino Studies
2019 - Routledge | Muziki
Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the creator of Afrobeat genre was an accomplished performer in every sense of the word. His creative ingenuity was evident in all the musical and extra-musical exertions that went into the production of Afrobeat This paper therefore examines the performance practices of ... performances. It will discuss the ensembles used in afrobeat performences and how it has helped in interpreting ...
Tópico(s): African studies and sociopolitical issues
2013 - MIR Center Press | Journal of Arts and Humanities
... is weapon of future (Music is Weapon). The afrobeat revolutionary's vision of Nigeria's cultural prospects, ...
Tópico(s): Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics
2008 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Ariel
... writer. As a DJ he has performed in Afrobeat capitals such as Lagos, Johannesburg, Berlin, New Delhi, ...
2007 - Taylor & Francis | Wasafiri
... original compositions that blend their distinctive mix of Afrobeat, soul, and funk inspired by Ethiopian popular music ...
Tópico(s): Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
2010 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Callaloo
... for his syncretic hybrids of American R&B, Afrobeat, and Latin popular styles. In contrast, the term " ...
Tópico(s): Music Technology and Sound Studies
2013 - | Canadian University Music Review
... with relish. Poets, painters, novelists, and highlife or afrobeat musicians all bloom into life here, although there ...
Tópico(s): African history and culture studies
2015 - Oxford University Press | African Affairs
... identities around the popularity and the inclusion of Afrobeats music, Nollywood films and the representation of ankara ...
Tópico(s): Migration and Labor Dynamics
2021 - Intellect | Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research
Nelson Okorie, Alex Tolu Olagunju,
... providing a platform for cultural representation and interactivity. Afrobeats, a music genre that originated in West Africa, ... cultural preferences of viewers towards the use of Afrobeats music in the Nigerian Idol reality TV show. ... Lagos, Nigeria, and explore their cultural preferences for Afrobeats music. Through a mixed methods approach involving a ... However, there is a significant cultural preference for Afrobeats music compared to other genres of music, particularly ... growing influence and acceptance of the fast-rising Afrobeats genre. The findings underscore the role of media, ...
Tópico(s): Media Studies and Communication
2024 - Routledge | African Identities

A criação do estilo musical denominado afrobeat, que ocorreu na Nigéria na década de 1970, gerou um grande impacto cultural na sociedade nigeriana, chegando a reverberar nas experiências de ... tradição yorùbá com elementos da música ocidental,o afrobeat ainda serviu de base para a projeção de ... se paralelamente ao projeto es tético musical do afrobeat um projeto de renovação dos valores culturais vigentes ... grandeza em Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, o criador do afrobeat, a partir de uma interpretação das noções de ...
Tópico(s): Brazilian cultural history and politics
2019 - | TRÁGICA Estudos de Filosofia da Imanência
... These collaborations have blossomed with the advent of Afrobeats—a loose term describing the contemporary transatlantic sound ... African music. Although there are male and female Afrobeats performers on the African continent, this cultural exchange ... wealth. Using Tiwa Savage and Burna Boy—two Afrobeats giants—as case studies, this essay examines the ... the gender wealth disparities between male and female Afrobeats performers.
Tópico(s): Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
2024 - Wiley | Journal of Popular Music Studies
... has recently claimed that she considers herself an Afrobeat author, because she started writing in 1997, a ... contend that in A Bit of Difference (2013) Afrobeat music embodies the cultural signifier of transnational and ... of this essay underscores the cultural influence of Afrobeat on Atta's writing, and presents an overview ...
Tópico(s): Race, History, and American Society
2020 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Intercultural Studies
... examined the reflective experiences of a few Nigerian Afrobeats artistes on irregular migration and identified overlapping contradictory ... NMD). Ten song texts of eight of these Afrobeats artistes were purposively deconstructed to evince the conception ... dialectical thinking underlying the use of songs by Afrobeats artistes to raise public awareness against irregular migration ...
Tópico(s): Social and Cultural Dynamics
2022 - Routledge | Communicatio