| Description |
1 online resource (336 pages) |
| Series |
African Expressive Cultures |
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African expressive cultures.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Dance music -- Social aspects -- Ghana
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Highlife (Music) -- Ghana -- History and criticism
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HISTORY / Africa / West.
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Dance music -- Social aspects
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Highlife (Music)
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Ghana -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054774
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| Subject |
Ghana
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780253007339 |
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025300733X |
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