TY  - BOOK
AU  - Plageman,Nate
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Highlife Saturday night: popular music and social change in urban Ghana 
AV  - ML3917.G43 P53 2013
U1  - 306.4/8409667 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Dance music
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Ghana
KW  - Highlife (Music)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
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ER  -