ISBN:
025300733X
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9780253007339
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource
Series Statement:
African expressive cultures
Series Statement:
Ethnomusicology multimedia
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.48409667
Keywords:
Dance music Social aspects
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Ghana
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Highlife (Music) History and criticism
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Ghana
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Dance music Social aspects
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Highlife (Music) History and criticism
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Highlife (Music) History and criticism
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Dance music Social aspects
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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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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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Ghana Social conditions
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Ghana
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Ghana Social conditions
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Ghana Social conditions
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Ghana
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Electronic books
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Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: the historical importance of urban Ghana's Saturday nightsPopular 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index. - Description based on print version record
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