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Oxford University Press
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Mattingly
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The Drummer’s Time: Conversations with the Great Drummers of Jazz
.
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,
1999
.
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Monson
,
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.
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:
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.
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.
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:
Oxford University Press
,
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.
Google Scholar
 
Moore
,
Carlos
.
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.
Chicago
:
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,
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Google Scholar
 
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,
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.
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.
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:
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,
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,
2003
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,
Abdul
. “
I’m Still Scratching the Surface
.”
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,
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17
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Google Scholar
 
Oti
,
Sonny
.
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.
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:
Malthouse
,
2009
.
Google Scholar
 
Payne
,
Jim
.
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.
New York
:
Manhattan Music
,
1996
.
Google Scholar
 
Schoonmaker
,
Trevor
.
The Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
.
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:
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,
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.
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Schoonmaker
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Trevor
.
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.
New York
:
Palgrave
,
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Google Scholar
 
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,
Nago
.
Les musiciens du beat Africaine
.
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:
Bordas
,
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.
Google Scholar
 
Seck
,
Nago
, and
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.
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.
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:
L’Harmattan
,
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.
Google Scholar
 
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,
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. “
Tony Allen: Talking Drums
.”
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,
Allan
, and
Silverman
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.
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.
New York
:
Manhattan Music
,
1997
.
Google Scholar
 
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,
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Tony Allen—The Soul of Afrobeat
.”
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,
Chris
, and
May
Chris
.
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.
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:
Obelisk
,
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,
T. Ajayi
.
The History of Juju Music
.
New York
:
Thomas
,
1992
.
Google Scholar
 
Thress
,
Dan
. “
African Drummers in Paris
.”
Drum!
,
June
2001
.
Google Scholar
 
Veal
,
Michael
.
Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon
.
Philadelphia
:
Temple University Press
,
2000
.
Google Scholar
 
von Essen
,
Penny M.
Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War
.
Cambridge, MA
:
Harvard University Press
,
2006
.
Google Scholar
 
Warren
,
Guy
.
I Have a Story to Tell
.
Accra
:
Guinea Press
,
1962
.
Google Scholar
 
Waterman
,
Christopher
.
Juju: A Social History and Ethnography of an African Popular Music
.
Chicago
:
University of Chicago Press
,
1990
.
Google Scholar
 
Wilson
,
Olly
. “
The Significance of the Relationship between Afro-American Music and West African Music
.”
Black Perspective in Music
2
(Spring
1974
):
3
–
22
.
Google Scholar
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Search ADS
 
Winders
,
James
.
Paris Africain: Rhythms of the African Diaspora
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Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the Master Drummer of Afrobeat

Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the Master Drummer of Afrobeat

By
Tony Allen
Tony Allen

Tony Allen, a major African musician and world-class drum-set player, was born in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1940 and has lived in Paris since 1985. Allen is best known as Fela Kuti's supremely talented sideman. After leaving Fela's band Africa 70 in 1979, Allen went on to establish a successful career as an independent musician. During his five decades behind the drum set, he has toured the globe and collaborated with musicians from King Sunny Adé to Ginger Baker to Damon Albarn.

Michael E. Veal is a musician and Professor of Music and African American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon.

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Michael E. Veal
Michael E. Veal

Tony Allen, a major African musician and world-class drum-set player, was born in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1940 and has lived in Paris since 1985. Allen is best known as Fela Kuti's supremely talented sideman. After leaving Fela's band Africa 70 in 1979, Allen went on to establish a successful career as an independent musician. During his five decades behind the drum set, he has toured the globe and collaborated with musicians from King Sunny Adé to Ginger Baker to Damon Albarn.

Michael E. Veal is a musician and Professor of Music and African American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon.

Search for other works by this author on:
This Site
Google
Duke University Press
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822377092
Copyright:
This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved.
ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7709-2
Publication date:
2013
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BOOKS AND ARTICLES

Allman
,
Jean
.
Fashioning Africa: Power and the Politics of Dress
.
Bloomington
:
Indiana University Press
,
2004
.
Google Scholar
 
Apter
,
Andrew
.
The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria
.
Chicago
:
University of Chicago Press
,
2005
.
Google Scholar
 
Arogundade
,
Fola
. “
Why I’m No Longer Guy Warren
” (interview with
Ghanaba
Kofi
).
Punch
,
May
12
,
1979
.
Google Scholar
 
Babcock
,
Jay
. “
Bootsy Collins on Fela Kuti
.”
Mean
,
October
1999
.
Reprinted at Arthur Magazine Archive
, http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/11/02/bootsy-collins/.
Google Scholar
 
Baker
,
Ginger
.
Hellraiser: The Story of the World’s Greatest Drummer
.
London
:
John Blake
,
2010
.
Google Scholar
 
Barber
,
Karin
, ed., with
Arnoldi
Mary-Jo
,
Cooper
Frederick
,
Cosentino
Donald
, and
Jules-Rosette
Bennetta
. “
Popular Arts in Africa
.”
African Studies Review
30
, no.
3
(
September
1987
):
1
–
78
.
Google Scholar
Crossref
Search ADS
 
Bender
,
Wolfgang
.
Sweet Mother: Modern African Music
.
Chicago
:
University of Chicago Press
,
1991
.
Google Scholar
 
Bender
,
Wolfgang
.
Der nigerianische Highlife
.
Wuppertal
:
Peter Hammer Verlag
,
2007
.
Google Scholar
 
ben-Jochanan
,
Yosef
.
Black Man of the Nile and His Family
.
Baltimore
:
Black Classic Press
,
1996
.
Google Scholar
 
Biobaku
,
Saburi Oladeni
.
The Egba and Their Neighbors, 1842–1872
.
Oxford
:
Clarendon
,
1965
.
Google Scholar
 
Chadbourne
,
Eugene
. “
Frank Butler
.” http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p6215/biography. Accessed
May
21
,
2012
.
Google Scholar
 
Charry
,
Eric
.
Mande Music
.
Chicago
:
University of Chicago Press
,
2000
.
Google Scholar
 
Chernoff
,
John Miller
.
African Rhythm and African Sensibility
.
Chicago
:
University of Chicago Press
,
1979
.
Google Scholar
 
Collins
,
John
.
Music Makers of West Africa
.
Washington, DC
:
Three Continents
,
1985
.
Google Scholar
 
Collins
,
John
. “
Jazz Feedback to Africa
.”
American Music
, Summer
1987
.
Google Scholar
 
Collins
,
John
.
West African Pop Roots
.
Philadelphia
:
Temple University Press
,
1992
.
Google Scholar
 
Collins
,
John
.
Highlife Time
.
Accra
:
Anansesem
,
1996
.
Google Scholar
 
Collins
,
John
.
Kalakuta Notes
.
Amsterdam
:
KIT
,
2009
.
Google Scholar
 
Darnton
,
John
. “
Nigeria’s Dissident Superstar
.”
New York Times
,
July
24
,
1977
.
Google Scholar
 
Davis
,
Angela
.
Angela Davis: An Autobiography
.
New York
:
Random House
,
1974
.
Google Scholar
 
Diawara
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Manthia
.
We Won’t Budge
.
New York
:
Basic Civitas
,
2004
.
Google Scholar
 
Dibango
,
Manu
.
Three Kilos of Coffee
.
Chicago
:
University of Chicago Press
,
1994
.
Google Scholar
 
Euba
,
Akin
. “
Islamic Musical Culture among the Yoruba: A Preliminary Survey
.” In
Essays on Music in Africa
, ed.
Wachsmann
Klaus
.
Evanston
:
University of Illinois Press
,
1967
.
Google Scholar
 
Euba
,
Akin
.
Yoruba Drumming: The Dundun Tradition
.
Bayreuth
:
E. Breitinger
,
1990
.
Google Scholar
 
Ewens
,
Graeme
.
Congo Colossus: The Life and Legacy of Franco and OK Jazz
.
Norfolk, UK
:
Buku Press
,
1994
.
Google Scholar
 
Feld
,
Steven
.
Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana
.
Durham, NC
:
Duke University Press
,
2012
.
Google Scholar
 
Graham
,
Ronnie
.
The Da Capo Guide to African Music
.
New York
:
Da Capo
,
1988
.
Google Scholar
 
Idowu
,
Mabinuori Kayode
.
Fela le combatant
.
Paris
:
Le Castor Astral
,
2002
.
Google Scholar
 
Jacobs
,
Dan
.
The Brutality of Nations
.
New York
:
Knopf
,
1987
.
Google Scholar
 
Johnson
,
Rotimi
. “
The Language and Content of Nigerian Popular Music
.” In
Perspectives on African Music
, ed.
Bender
Wolfgang
.
Bayreuth
:
African Studies Series
,
1985
.
Google Scholar
 
Kelley
,
Robin D. G.
Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times
.
Cambridge, MA
:
Harvard University Press
,
2012
.
Google Scholar
 
Kilby
,
Jak
. “
Master of Afrobeat
.”
West Africa
,
January
28
,
1985
.
Google Scholar
 
Korall
,
Burt
.
Drummin’ Men: The Heartbeat of Jazz: The Bebop Years
.
London
:
Oxford University Press
,
2002
.
Google Scholar
 
Locke
,
David
.
Drum Gahu: An Introduction to African Rhythm
.
Tempe
:
White Cliffs
,
1998
.
Google Scholar
 
Makeba
,
Miriam
, with
Hall
James
.
Makeba: My Story
.
New York
:
New American Library
,
1987
.
Google Scholar
 
Masekela
,
Hugh
, and
Cheers
D. Michael
.
Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela
.
New York
:
Crown
,
2004
.
Google Scholar
 
Mattingly
,
Rick
.
The Drummer’s Time: Conversations with the Great Drummers of Jazz
.
New York
:
Modern Drummer
,
1999
.
Google Scholar
 
Monson
,
Ingrid
.
Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction
.
Chicago
:
University of Chicago Press
,
1996
.
Google Scholar
 
Monson
,
Ingrid
.
Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa
.
Oxford
:
Oxford University Press
,
2007
.
Google Scholar
 
Moore
,
Carlos
.
Fela, Fela: This Bitch of a Life
.
Chicago
:
Lawrence Hill
,
1982
.
Google Scholar
 
Olaniyan
,
Tejumola
.
“Arrest the Music”: Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics
.
Bloomington
:
University of Indiana Press
,
2004
.
Google Scholar
 
Olorunyomi
,
Sola
.
Fela and the Imagined Continent
.
Trenton
:
Africa World Press
,
2003
.
Google Scholar
 
Oroh
,
Abdul
. “
I’m Still Scratching the Surface
.”
African Guardian
,
October
17
,
1988
.
Google Scholar
 
Oti
,
Sonny
.
Highlife Music in West Africa
.
Oxford
:
Malthouse
,
2009
.
Google Scholar
 
Payne
,
Jim
.
Give the Drummers Some! The Great Drummers of R&B, Funk and Soul
.
New York
:
Manhattan Music
,
1996
.
Google Scholar
 
Schoonmaker
,
Trevor
.
The Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
.
New York
:
New Museum of Contemporary Art
,
2003
.
Google Scholar
 
Schoonmaker
,
Trevor
.
Fela: From West Africa to West Broadway
.
New York
:
Palgrave
,
2003
.
Google Scholar
 
Seck
,
Nago
.
Les musiciens du beat Africaine
.
Paris
:
Bordas
,
1993
.
Google Scholar
 
Seck
,
Nago
, and
Clerfeuille
Sylvie
.
Musiciens Africains des annes 80
.
Paris
:
L’Harmattan
,
1986
.
Google Scholar
 
Shapiro
,
Peter
. “
Tony Allen: Talking Drums
.”
Wire
,
July
1999
.
Google Scholar
 
Slutsky
,
Allan
, and
Silverman
Chuck
.
The Funkmasters: The Great James Brown Rhythm Sections, 1960–1973
.
New York
:
Manhattan Music
,
1997
.
Google Scholar
 
Smith
,
C. C.
 “
Tony Allen—The Soul of Afrobeat
.”
The Beat
,
December
1984
.
Google Scholar
 
Stapleton
,
Chris
, and
May
Chris
.
African Rock: The Pop Music of a Continent
.
New York
:
Obelisk
,
1990
.
Google Scholar
 
Thomas
,
T. Ajayi
.
The History of Juju Music
.
New York
:
Thomas
,
1992
.
Google Scholar
 
Thress
,
Dan
. “
African Drummers in Paris
.”
Drum!
,
June
2001
.
Google Scholar
 
Veal
,
Michael
.
Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon
.
Philadelphia
:
Temple University Press
,
2000
.
Google Scholar
 
von Essen
,
Penny M.
Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War
.
Cambridge, MA
:
Harvard University Press
,
2006
.
Google Scholar
 
Warren
,
Guy
.
I Have a Story to Tell
.
Accra
:
Guinea Press
,
1962
.
Google Scholar
 
Waterman
,
Christopher
.
Juju: A Social History and Ethnography of an African Popular Music
.
Chicago
:
University of Chicago Press
,
1990
.
Google Scholar
 
Wilson
,
Olly
. “
The Significance of the Relationship between Afro-American Music and West African Music
.”
Black Perspective in Music
2
(Spring
1974
):
3
–
22
.
Google Scholar
Crossref
Search ADS
 
Winders
,
James
.
Paris Africain: Rhythms of the African Diaspora
.
New York
:
Palgrave Macmillan
,
2006
.
Google Scholar
 

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