Chat Africa BookClub Picks Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon by Michael E. Veal (653 hits)
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Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon by Michael E. Veal Product Description Review "Michael Veal's book presents a vibrant multifaceted portrait of, as the subtitle explains, 'an African musical icon.'...With its exhaustive discography, archival photos, and vivid descriptions of Fela's life in performanceoboth on stage and offothis book provides a fantastic primer on one of the more intriguing musical personalities of the twentieth century." Ethnomusicology "Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon is both timely and bold... [It] has the potential of becoming a classic of African biography. It is written in an…
