Highlife Saturday night : popular music and social change in urban Ghana / / Nate Plageman
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| Autore: |
Plageman Nate <1978->
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| Titolo: |
Highlife Saturday night : popular music and social change in urban Ghana / / Nate Plageman
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| 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 |
| 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 |
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Serie:
Ethnomusicology multimedia.
African expressive cultures.