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Music Is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African Popular Music.(Book Review)
By Frank Tenaille. Photographs by Akwa Betote. Translated by Stephen Toussaint and Hope Sandrine. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2002. [xiv, 205 p. ISBN 1-55652-450-1. $18.95.] Illustrations, glossary of musical genres and styles, glossary of instruments, bibliography, discography, index.
Frank Tenaille chooses Fela Kuti's provocative proclamation "Music Is the Weapon of the Future" as the title of his book Fifty Years of African Popular Music. Through thirty vignettes, serving as exposes of over sixty musicians and groups from twenty-eight countries, Tenaille explores life histories and genres of over half a century of popular music in Africa. It is an ambitious ...
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...recently honored with the Akula Award for Innovative Teaching in recognition of his approach to teaching the course, "African Popular Culture." According to the syllabus, students examine multiple forms of music, literature and art in sub-Saharan Africa...
