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Structured with an introduction, three major parts spanning early days, confrontation, and retrospect, it gathers firsthand memories and interviews alongside a chronology, notes, selected bibliography, and extensive discography. A foreword frames Fela’s enduring cultural force and the global “Felabration” response that continues to evolve through music and other art forms. ","fela  \njohn c ollins  \nForew ord by b anning e yre  \nd isc ography by r onnie g raham  \nKala K uta notes se c ond edition  \nWesleyan University Press Middletown, Connecticut  \nWesleyan University Press Middletown CT 06459 [www.wesleyan.edu/wespress](www.wesleyan.edu/wespress)[ ](www.wesleyan.edu/wespress)© 2015 John Collins Foreword © 2015 Banning Eyre All rights reserved  \nManufactured in the United States of America Designed by Mindy Basinger Hill  \nTypeset in Albertina MT Pro  \nNew, revised, and expanded edition of Fela: Kalakuta Notes, © KIT Publishers, 2009.  \nWesleyan University Press is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper.  \nLibrary of Congress  \nCataloging-in-Publication Data  \nCollins, John, 1944–  \nFela: Kalakuta notes / John Collins; foreword by Banning Eyre; discography by Ronnie Graham.—Second edition.  \npages cm.—(Music/Interview)  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8195-7539-5 (pbk.: alk. paper)—  \nISBN 978-0-8195-7540-1 (ebook)  \n1. Fela, 1938–1997. 2. Musicians—Nigeria—Biography. I. Title.  \nML410.F2955C67 2015 781.63092—dc23  \n[B] 2014042402  \n5 4 3 2 1  \nCover illustration: Fela at a Brixton show, London, 1983. Photo by Jak Kilby.  \nt o my wi F e and son,  \nd o vi h elen and  \nt homas Ko jo c ollins  \ncontents  \nForeword by Banning Eyre ix Introduction 1  \npart one Early Days  \n1. The Birth of Afrobeat 27  \n2. Joe Mensah Remembers 41 3. Fela in Ghana 49  \n4. Stan Plange Remembers 55  \nPart two Confrontation  \n5. The Kalakuta Is Born 67  \n6.“J. 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Rather than fading, Fela’s stature and influence worldwide keeps growing year by year as young musicians come together to form Afrobeat bands, DJs and remixers chop and dice Fela classics, and all known art forms—dance, poetry, theater, film, photography, painting—come together in myriad annual expressions of “Felabration.” Much has been written about Fela, his life and work, and much more will be in the future. But this book assumes a unique place in the Fela literary canon because of its author, aman with the perspective, knowledge, and access to Fela’s story to render it with the style of a novelist, the precision and detail of a historian, and the musical insight of an insidertothe creative process. John Collins went to Ghana as a child when his father, Edmund Collins, brought the family there from England to help set up the University of Ghana’s philosophy department in 1952. Collins’s mother took him back to England for schooling, but he rejoined his father in Accra in 1969 and has mostly lived there ever since, becoming a naturalized Ghanaian. Collins is today a renowned archivist, producer, author, and a professor","cbCaijhPxdcIEsCM","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijhPxdcIEsCM","pdf",9267317,1,345,"English","en",105,"# Foreword\n# Introduction\n# Part One - Early Days\n## The Birth of Afrobeat\n## Joe Mensah Remembers\n## Fela in Ghana\n## Stan Plange Remembers\n# Part Two - Confrontation\n## The Kalakuta Is Born\n## “J. 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