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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington, IN :
Indiana University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | African expressive cultures.
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780253007339 025300733X |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |