Highlife Saturday night [electronic resource] : popular music and social change in urban Ghana / Nate Plageman.
Material type: TextSeries: African expressive cultures | Ethnomusicology multimediaPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.Description: xvi, 318 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 306.4/8409667 23
- ML3917.G43 P53 2013
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Ebook | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online | eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.