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Highlife Saturday night [electronic resource] : popular music and social change in urban Ghana / Nate Plageman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Ethnomusicology multimedia | African expressive cultures | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780253007339
  • 025300733X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.48409667 23
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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