Highlife Saturday Night - Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana

Informationen zum Autor Nathan Plageman Klappentext This book is generously enhanced by audiovisual material on the Ethnomusicology Multimedia website. Zusammenfassung A penetrating look at musical leisure during a time of social, political, and cultural change in Ghana Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Ethnomusicology Multimedia Series Preface Introduction: The Historical Importance of Urban Ghana's Saturday Nights 1. Popular Music, Political Authority, and Social Possibilities in the Southern Gold Coast, 1890-1940 2. The Making of a Middle Class: Urban Social Clubs and the Evolution of Highlife Music, 1915-1940 3. The Friction on the Floor: Negotiating Nightlife in Accra, 1940-1960 4. "The Highlife was Born in Ghana": Politics, Culture, and the Making of a National Music, 1950-1965 5. "We Were the Ones Who Composed the Songs": The Promises and Pitfalls of Being a Bandsman, 1945-1970 Epilogue Glossary Notes Discography Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Nate Plageman, Nathan Plageman, Plageman Nathan
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.12.2012
• EAN: 9780253007254
• ISBN: 978-0-253-00725-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: African Expressive Cultures; African Expressive Cultures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries