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UNINA9910779366503321 |
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Autore |
Plageman Nate <1978-> |
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Titolo |
Highlife Saturday night [[electronic resource] ] : popular music and social change in urban Ghana / / Nate Plageman |
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-86995-0 |
0-253-00733-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Collana |
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African expressive cultures |
Ethnomusicology multimedia |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Dance music - Social aspects - Ghana |
Highlife (Music) - Ghana - History and criticism |
Ghana Social conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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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 |
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