Minggu, 18 September 2011

In ‘Fela!’, infectious beats serve as soundtrack to Ni­ger­ian activist’s story

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If your inner percussion section isn't set free by "Fela!", you might want to ask your seatmate to check your vital signs.

It's hard to recall a musical of recent vintage that conjures with such explosive imaginative energy a man, his voice and his politics. That man would be Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the late Nigerian singer-activist who pioneered his own sound, defined it as Afrobeat and used it as a powerful rhythm stick against the nation's military government.

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Zachary A. Goldfarb 19 Sep, 2011


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