Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

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



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Autore: Plageman Nate <1978-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Highlife Saturday night : popular music and social change in urban Ghana / / Nate Plageman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2013
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
Disciplina: 306.4/8409667
Soggetto topico: Dance music - Social aspects - Ghana
Highlife (Music) - Ghana - History and criticism
Soggetto geografico: Ghana Social conditions
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Highlife Saturday night  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-86995-0
0-253-00733-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813319203321
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Serie: Ethnomusicology multimedia. African expressive cultures.