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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press

ISBN-100226774058

ISBN-139780226774053

eBay Product ID (ePID)1230056

Product Key Features

Number of Pages168 Pages

Publication NameBreakout : Profiles in African Rhythm

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1992

SubjectGeneral, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal

TypeTextbook

AuthorGary Stewart

Subject AreaMusic

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN91-030279

Dewey Edition20

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal781.63/096

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Soukous Chic Kanda Bongo Man 2. God of the Guitar Docteur Nico 3. Tonjours O.K. Franco and l'Orchestre O.K. Jazz 4. Ubongo Man Remmy Ongala 5. The Palm Wine Picker S.E. Rogie 6. A Vanishing Breed Big Fayia 7. Graceland's Heartbeat Francis Fuster 8. Dance the Highlife Nana Ampadu 9. High Times, Hard Times Hedzoleh Soundz 10. The Beat Goes On Olatunji 11. The Dawn of Afro-beat Orlando Julius Ekemode 12. Soul Brother Number One Joni Haastrup 13. An African Musician Fela Anikulapo-Kuti 14. Politics and Papa's Land Sonny Okosuns Notes Discography Bibliography Index

SynopsisBased 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.", 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.

LC Classification NumberML3502.5.S73 1992