Breakout: Profiles in African Rhythm

by Gary Stewart

Based on exclusive interviews, Breakout tells the often riveting personal stories of fourteen popular musicians--some well known, others not--from Zaire, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. The first book on African pop music to look closely at the lives of the musicians themselves, Breakout deals with four African musical genres: soukous, highlife, afro-beat, and palm wine.

Amid Africa's deepening economic and political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226774066
• ISBN13: 9780226774060
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"