Highlife Saturday Night: Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana (African Expressive Cultures)

Type

Book

Authors

Nathan Plageman

ISBN 10

0253007291

ISBN 13

9780253007292

Tags

Ethnomusicology, West Africa

Description

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 fueled the music’s emergence, evolution, and explosive popularity. This book is generously enhanced by audiovisual material on the Ethnomusicology Multimedia website. - from Amzon

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