Face the Music - Nigerian Album Covers and National Identity
Highlife, Afrobeat and African Psychedelic Soul
Hello Groovers,
Tonight we look at those portraits that were used to sell music in the tumultuous, mercurial decade of the 1970s when Nigeria’s primary concern was the construction of national identity, the making and re-making of a country. What secrets about this national project did the musicians’ faces hold, just as their music did? How was the zeitgeist written on their bodies, the bodies with which they sang the songs of the people?
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Oh yeah, good times!
Deejay Maarten Vlot KC
Tracklist
The Lijadu Sisters - Not Any Longer
Peter King - African Dialects
Ojah & Hugh Masekela - Afro Beat Blues
Marijata - I walk Alone
Universal Togetherness Band - Ain’t Gonna Cry
Blo - Chant For Mother Earth
Itadi - Watch Your Life
Ebo Taylor - Heaven
The Hykkers - I Want A Break Trough
Matata - Wanna Do My Thing
Joni Haastrup - Greetings
Tony Allen - Secret Agent
Ebo Taylor - Love and Death
Orgone & Mermans Mosengo - Zum Zum
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley - This Hustling World
The Hygrades - In The Jungle
Fela Kuti - Lady
Rob - Make It Fast, Make It Slow
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