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Podcast: This Is TASTE
Episode: Preview: Fela Kuti: Fear No Man
Description: Weâre taking a break from food conversations to highlight another love of ours: Great music. In â Fela Kuti: Fear No Manâ , Jad Abumradâcreator of Radiolab, More Perfect, and Dolly Partonâs Americaâtells the story of one of the great political awakenings in music: how a classically trained "colonial boy" traveled to America, in search of Africa, only to return to Nigeria and transform his sound into a battering ram against the stateâcreating a new musical language of resistance called Afrobeat.
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