ETHNOMUS 25 Chapter Notes - Chapter Online Article: Nikki Giovanni, Stokely Carmichael, Angela Davis
17 May 2016
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Make it funky: fela kuti, james brown and the. Black musical expression produces a distinctive counterculture of modernity because it is based on shared oppression, common goals, and hybrid cultures. During the early postcolonial years, the interest of african americans in discovering their african roots stimulated a similar impulse in some. Fela anikulapo kuti was known by many names: afrobeat pioneer, a political instigator, and even as a husband to 27 wives, he is ultimately known for his transformation from a british-trained. Nigerian jazz trumpeter to a black-nationalist countercultural dissident icon: for the first time, i saw the essence of blackism [black nationalism]. It"s crazy; in the united states people think the black-power movement drew inspiration from africa. They don"t realize they"re the ones who"ve got it over there. From palmwine and highlife to afrobeat and beyond: the most widespread and influential of these guitar-based genres, palmwine music, swept the region during the 1920s and.
