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Highlife Saturday night

by Plageman, Nate,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: African expressive cultures | Ethnomusicology multimedia Published by : Indiana University Press, (Bloomington :) Physical details: xvi, 318 p. : ill.
Subject(s): Dance music -- Social aspects -- Ghana. | Highlife (Music) -- Ghana -- History and criticism. | Ghana -- Social conditions. | Electronic books.
Year: 2013
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Includes bibliographical references, discography, 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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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