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Tony Allen is the autobiography of legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, the rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat. Conversational, inviting, and packed with telling anecdotes, Allen's memoir is based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the musician and scholar Michael E. Veal. It spans Allen's early years and career playing highlife music in Lagos; his fifteen years with Fela, from 1964 until 1979; his struggles to form his own bands in Nigeria; and his emigration to France. Allen embraced the drum set, rather than African handheld drums, early in his career, when drum kits were relatively rare in Africa. His story conveys a love of his craft along with the specifics of his practice. It also provides invaluable firsthand accounts of the explosive creativity in postcolonial African music, and the personal and artistic dynamics in Fela's Koola Lobitos and Africa 70, two of the greatest bands to ever play African music.
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction / Michael E. Veal 1
1. Right in the Center of Lagos 21
2. Highlife Time 36
3. The Sky was the Limit 47
4. God's Own Country 68
5. Swinging Like Hell! 85
6. Everything Scatter 108
7. Progress 128
8. When One Road Closes . . . 146
9. Paris Blues 162
10. No End to Business 175
Selected References 187
Index 193
