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

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Sonraí bibleagrafaíochta
Príomhchruthaitheoir: Plageman, Nate, 1978-
Údar corparáideach: ebrary, Inc
Formáid: Leictreonach Ríomhleabhar
Teanga:Béarla
Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.
Sraith:African expressive cultures
Ethnomusicology multimedia
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Clár na nÁbhar:
  • 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.