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.

• Acknowledgments1. Introduction: "Living in the Interregnum": Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and the Postcolonial Incredible2. The "Apolitical" Avant-Pop Hustler3. The Afrobeat Moralist4. Dissident Tunes: The Political Afrobeat5. Fela, Lagos, and the Postcolonial State6. On the Shop Floor: The Social Production of Afrobeat7. Pedagogue, Pedagogy, and the Pedagogic Form8. The Cosmopolitan Nativist: Fela and the Antinomies of Postcolonial Modernity9. The Political, The Libidinal10. Conclusion: Afrobeat After FelaNotesBibliographyDiscographyIndex

"[Arrest the Music!] is written with both thoroughness and a very readable prose . . ."—Mmegi Online"A true African genius whose influence had an indelible influence on thousands of musicians, especially me personally. I miss his raucous laughter, irreverent courage, robust comedy, and love for humanity. . . . Fela's legacy will live forever."—Hugh Masekela"The book's accessible and evocative prose is in itself a kind of homage to Fela's continual ability to seduce and astonish. . . . This is such an attractive book you feel like . . . ransacking your collection for Fela tapes."—Karin Barber

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.

• Acknowledgments1. Introduction: "Living in the Interregnum": Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and the Postcolonial Incredible2. The "Apolitical" Avant-Pop Hustler3. The Afrobeat Moralist4. Dissident Tunes: The Political Afrobeat5. Fela, Lagos, and the Postcolonial State6. On the Shop Floor: The Social Production of Afrobeat7. Pedagogue, Pedagogy, and the Pedagogic Form8. The Cosmopolitan Nativist: Fela and the Antinomies of Postcolonial Modernity9. The Political, The Libidinal10. Conclusion: Afrobeat After FelaNotesBibliographyDiscographyIndex

"[Arrest the Music!] is written with both thoroughness and a very readable prose . . ."—Mmegi Online"A true African genius whose influence had an indelible influence on thousands of musicians, especially me personally. I miss his raucous laughter, irreverent courage, robust comedy, and love for humanity. . . . Fela's legacy will live forever."—Hugh Masekela"The book's accessible and evocative prose is in itself a kind of homage to Fela's continual ability to seduce and astonish. . . . This is such an attractive book you feel like . . . ransacking your collection for Fela tapes."—Karin Barber

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.

• Acknowledgments1. Introduction: "Living in the Interregnum": Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and the Postcolonial Incredible2. The "Apolitical" Avant-Pop Hustler3. The Afrobeat Moralist4. Dissident Tunes: The Political Afrobeat5. Fela, Lagos, and the Postcolonial State6. On the Shop Floor: The Social Production of Afrobeat7. Pedagogue, Pedagogy, and the Pedagogic Form8. The Cosmopolitan Nativist: Fela and the Antinomies of Postcolonial Modernity9. The Political, The Libidinal10. Conclusion: Afrobeat After FelaNotesBibliographyDiscographyIndex

"[Arrest the Music!] is written with both thoroughness and a very readable prose . . ."—Mmegi Online"A true African genius whose influence had an indelible influence on thousands of musicians, especially me personally. I miss his raucous laughter, irreverent courage, robust comedy, and love for humanity. . . . Fela's legacy will live forever."—Hugh Masekela"The book's accessible and evocative prose is in itself a kind of homage to Fela's continual ability to seduce and astonish. . . . This is such an attractive book you feel like . . . ransacking your collection for Fela tapes."—Karin Barber