Readers interested in music, culture, society, and politics, whether or not they know Fela and his music, will find this work invaluable for understanding the career of an African superstar and the politics of popular culture in contemporary Africa.African Expressive Cultures-Patrick McNaughton, general editor

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: "Living in the Interregnum": Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and the Postcolonial Incredible
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. The Cosmopolitan Nativist: Fela and the Antinomies of Postcolonial Modernity
9. The Political, The Libidinal
10. Conclusion: Afrobeat After Fela
Notes
Bibliography
Discography
Index

Tejumola Olaniyan is Professor of English and African Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is co-editor (with John Conteh-Morgan) of African Drama and Performance (IUP, 2004). He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.