Highlife Saturday night :: popular music and social change in urban Ghana /

Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana-when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor-in this penetrating look at musical leisure during a time of social, political, and cultural change. Framing dance band ""highlife"" music as a...

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1. Verfasser: Plageman, Nate, 1978-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
Schriftenreihe:African expressive cultures.
Ethnomusicology multimedia.
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Zusammenfassung:Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana-when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor-in this penetrating look at musical leisure during a time of social, political, and cultural change. Framing dance band ""highlife"" music as a central medium through which Ghanaians negotiated gendered and generational social relations, Nate Plageman shows how popular music was central to the rhythm of daily life in a West African nation. He traces the history of highlife in urban Ghana during much of the 20th century and documents a range of figures that fueled the music's emergence, evolution, and explosive popularity. --
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvi, 318 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.
ISBN:025300733X
9780253007339
1283869950
9781283869959

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