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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2013.
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Colección: | African expressive cultures.
Ethnomusicology multimedia. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource. |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index. |
ISBN: | 025300733X 9780253007339 1283869950 9781283869959 |