Highlife Saturday Night Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana

Name: Highlife Saturday Night Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana
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ISBN: 9780253007292

ISBN-10: 0253007291

ISBN-13: 9780253007292

Edition: 2012

Authors: Nathan Plageman

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Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights--when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor--in this penetrating look at musical leisure during a time of social, political, and cultural change. Framing dance band "highlife" music as a central medium through which Ghanaians negotiated gendered and generational social relations, Nate Plageman shows how popular music was central to the rhythm of daily life in a West African nation. He traces the history of highlife in urban Ghana during much of the 20th century and documents a range of figures that fueled the music's emergence, evolution, and explosive popularity.

Book details

List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 12/19/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English