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

Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Plageman, Nate, 1978-
Awdur Corfforaethol: ebrary, Inc
Fformat: Electronig eLyfr
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.
Cyfres:African expressive cultures
Ethnomusicology multimedia
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Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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.