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Burna Boy’s African Giant

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Burna Boy’s African Giant

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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.

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Size Trouble at Coachella: Africa on the Big Stage
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

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 04 Mar 2027
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 128
ISBN 9798765144640
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Series 33 1/3 Africa
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Dotun Ayobade

Dotun Ayobade is Assistant Professor of Performanc…

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