Highlife Saturday night popular music and social change in urban Ghana /
| Основен автор: | Plageman, Nate, 1978- |
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| Автор-организации: | ebrary, Inc. |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2013.
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| Серия: |
African expressive cultures
Ethnomusicology multimedia |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
Съдържание:
- 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.