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Highlife Saturday Night
Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana|
9,49 € |
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| Verlag: | Indiana University Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 19.12.2012 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780253007339 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 336 |
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<p>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.</p>
<p>Acknowledgements<br>Ethnomusicology Multimedia Series Preface<br>Introduction: The Historical Importance of Urban Ghana's Saturday Nights<br>1. Popular Music, Political Authority, and Social Possibilities in the Southern Gold Coast, 1890-1940<br>2. The Making of a Middle Class: Urban Social Clubs and the Evolution of Highlife Music, 1915-1940<br>3. The Friction on the Floor: Negotiating Nightlife in Accra, 1940-1960<br>4. "The Highlife was Born in Ghana": Politics, Culture, and the Making of a National Music, 1950-1965<br>5. "We Were the Ones Who Composed the Songs": The Promises and Pitfalls of Being a Bandsman, 1945-1970<br>Epilogue<br>Glossary<br>Notes<br>Discography<br>Bibliography<br>Index</p>
<p>One of Africa's most vibrant styles of popular music</p>
<p>Nate Plageman is Assistant Professor of History at Wake Forest University.</p>
<p>View accompanying audiovisual materials for the book at <a href="https://ethnomultimedia.org/book.html?bid=27">Ethnomusicology Multimedia</a></p>
<p>Explores a relatively unknown period of an important social and cultural institution—highlife music—and brings new insights and signficance to popular expressive forms.</p>
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