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FELA Kalakuta Notes Fela Kuti was the outstanding African musician of the 20th century and Afrobeat is his lasting legacy. This book, lavishly illustrated with studies by two of the leading photo-graphers of African culture and evocative snapshots by the author, adds a unique insight to the growing body of literature on Fela and provides a guide to the music that rocked a continent. John Collins stayed and played with Fela during the golden days of the 1970s and this is his account of that dramatic period. No-one else could have written this book and noone is better equipped to place these astonishing events in perspective. From now on, it’s a case of ‘Who No Know, Go Know’.
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AFROBEAT NO GO DIE!
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Collins
John Collins first went to Ghana in 1952 as a small child. He plays guitar, harmonica and percussion and has been actively involved in the Ghanaian and wider West African music scene since 1969, as a musician, band leader, recording producer and engineer, music union executive, writer and music journalist. He served on the Executive Board of the Musicians’ Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) in the late 1970s, ran his Bokoor guitar band during the 1970s, his Bokoor Recording Studio in the 1980s and 90s and from 1991 to 1998 was a Trustee on the Ghana National Folklore Board. He is currently a Full Professor in the Music Department of the University of Ghana, acting chairman of the Bokoor African Popular Music Archives Foundation (BAPMAF), manager of the Bokoor Recording Studio and co-leader of the Local Dimension highlife band that plays highlife, Afrobeat and northern Ghanaian sahelian music. He has published numerous articles on African music and over the past 35 years has influenced and inspired countless other activists, journalists, writers, historians, musicologists and musicians. His previous books include African Pop Roots. The Inside Rhythms of Africa (1985), Musicmakers of West Africa (1985), ET Mensah, King of Highlife (1986), West African Pop Roots (1992) and Highlife Time (1996).
John Collins Tropentheater