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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Plageman, Nathan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2012.
Colección:African expressive cultures.
Temas:
Dance music > Social aspects > Ghana.
Highlife (Music) > Ghana > History and criticism.
Danse, Musique de > Aspect social > Ghāna.
Highlife (Musique) > Ghāna > Histoire et critique.
HISTORY / Africa / West.
Dance music > Social aspects
Highlife (Music)
Social conditions
Ghana > Social conditions.
Ghāna > Conditions sociales.
Ghana
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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