Highlife Saturday night: popular music and social change in urban Ghana
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Main Author: Plageman, Nate (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington Indiana University Press 2013
Series:African expressive cultures
Ethnomusicology multimedia
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index
Introduction: the historical importance of urban Ghana's Saturday nights -- Popular music, political authority, and social possibilities in the southern Gold Coast, 1890-1940 -- The making of a middle class: urban social clubs and the evolution of highlife music, 1915-1940 -- The friction on the floor: negotiating nightlife in Accra, 1940-1960 -- "The highlife was born in Ghana": politics, culture, and the making of a national music, 1950-1965 -- "We were the ones who composed the songs": the promises and pitfalls of being a bandsman, 1945-1970
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:025300733X
9780253007339

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