Description
African Giant focuses on how the album-both as a compendium of 19 songs-and its associated tour combined to foreground a case for African visibility and dimensionality as they are negotiated by contemporary African musicians on the world stage.
While the album did not win Burna Boy a Grammy (that honor goes to 2020 album Twice as Tall), it illuminates the influences and Nigerian-diasporic cultural worlds to which Burna Boy's craft might be read. The book explores the sonic, aesthetic, and discursive strategies adopted by Burna Boy in his quest for a distinct personal style and global acclaim and investigates the cultural force of Afrobeats through one of its key artists.
Accessibility Information
Additional accessibility information
- PDF/UA-2, 1.4
- accessibility@bloomsbury.com
Hazards
The publication contains no hazards
Support for non-visual reading
Has alternative text descriptions for images
Navigation
- Page list to go to pages from the print source version
- Elements such as headings, tables, etc for structured navigation
- All or substantially all textual matter is arranged in a single logical reading order
Table of Contents
1. Before Biography and Genealogy in Burna Boy's Craft
2. Killin Dem: Choreographies of African Cool
3. Sampling and Collaboration as Experiments
4. Giant Strides: After African Giant
Product details
| Published | 04 May 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 128 |
| ISBN | 9798765144633 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | 33 1/3 Africa |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Related Titles
