Highlife Saturday Night: Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana (African Expressive Cultures)
Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana--when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor--in this...
Also Available in:
- Amazon
- Audible
- Barnes & Noble
- AbeBooks
- Kobo
More Details
Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana--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. This book is generously enhanced by audiovisual material on the Ethnomusicology Multimedia website.
- Format:
- Pages: pages
- Publication:
- Publisher:
- Edition:1st Edition
- Language:
- ISBN10:0253007259
- ISBN13:9780253007254
- kindle Asin:B00ANHEBDW
About Author
