- Title
- The alternative theory of state-minded protest texts in the music of democratic Nigeria:
- Creator
- Osiebe, Garhe
- Date Issued
- 2020
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160423
- Identifier
- vital:40444
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2020.1810085
- Description
- This paper centres on an alternative discourse of popular music culture in re-democratized Nigeria. Whereas much work has been done on state-minded protest music in Nigeria, studies have been reticent in appreciating the works of Fela's son, Femi; particularly within a framework of re-democratized Nigeria's equivalent of Fela's works which constituted a major alternative voice through military-ruled Nigeria. The paper is an attempt to make up this lacuna along the lines of Chris Atton’s 2006 alternative media theory. The analysis of the alternative media theory is complemented by an analysis of the texts of selected state-minded protest works from two crossover popular musicians – Blackface and Mr Raw – of re-democratized Nigeria, both of whose state-minded protest works have hitherto been unexplored by the academe.
- Format
- 18 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Critical African Studies
- Relation
- Osiebe, G., 2020. The alternative theory of state-minded protest texts in the music of democratic Nigeria. Critical African Studies, pp.1-17. DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2020.1810085
- Relation
- Critical African Studies volume 2020 number 1 17 July 2020 2040-7211
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