"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.
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