03170nam 2200649 a 450 991077936650332120200520144314.01-283-86995-00-253-00733-X(CKB)2550000000707541(EBL)816883(OCoLC)823387749(SSID)ssj0000801576(PQKBManifestationID)11487054(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000801576(PQKBWorkID)10794531(PQKB)10554723(OCoLC)825170191(MdBmJHUP)muse18251(Au-PeEL)EBL816883(CaPaEBR)ebr10634610(CaONFJC)MIL418245(MiAaPQ)EBC816883(EXLCZ)99255000000070754120120626d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHighlife Saturday night[electronic resource] popular music and social change in urban Ghana /Nate PlagemanBloomington Indiana University Press20131 online resource (336 p.)African expressive culturesEthnomusicology multimediaDescription based upon print version of record.0-253-00729-1 0-253-00725-9 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.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 thatEthnomusicology multimedia.African expressive cultures.Dance musicSocial aspectsGhanaHighlife (Music)GhanaHistory and criticismGhanaSocial conditionsDance musicSocial aspectsHighlife (Music)History and criticism.306.4/8409667Plageman Nate1978-1573259MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779366503321Highlife Saturday night3848924UNINA