Highlife Saturday night : popular music and social change in urban Ghana / Nate Plageman.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Plageman, Nate, 1978-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2013.
Series:	African expressive cultures. Ethnomusicology multimedia.
Subjects:	Dance music > Social aspects > Ghana. Highlife (Music) > Ghana > History and criticism. Ghana > Social conditions.

Table of Contents:

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.

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