UW-Madison Professer of African, African American and Caribbean cultural studies, Tejumola Olaniyan has written the book “Arrest The Music!: Fela & His Rebel Art and Politics”, published by Bookcraft, 2009.
The work examines the music, life and politics of the great Afrobeat artist Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’. Kuti’s unique brand of music born and nutured in Nigeria, weds highlife with elements of jazz, and other indigenous African music genres.
Kuti’s music pointedly illumines a host of modernistic challenges first authored by African postcolonial inventions. Olaniyan’s scholarly, yet friendly read, pulls no punches on Fela’s rebel art and politics. Olaniyan, like the brassy forceful sound of Kuti’s music, offers a frank straight-ahead insights inspired by a well-researched journey into the complex world of Nigeria’s controversial multi-instrumentalist Fela Kuti. A definitive read for fans and students of Afrobeat music.
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