Female Highlife Performers in Ghana - Expression, Resistance, and Advocacy

This book takes an ethnomusicological approach to demonstrate the historical importance of female performers of Highlife music in Ghana.

List of contents

Foreword by A.B. Assensoh
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Inception of My Ideology, Formations: Research Method & Preamble
Chapter 1: Evolution and Transformation of Highlife Musical Tradition of Ghana
Chapter 2: "Her-Storical" Legacy: Female Highlife Musicians in Ghana
Chapter 3: Resistance and Survival: The Trailblazing Stories
Chapter 4: Female Musical Compositions: She Advocates & I Analyze!
Chapter 5: The New Deal: New Era of Contemporary Ghanaian Music: From Globalization to Modernization
Chapter 6: Epilogue: Future Research & Theoretical Queries & Underpinnings
Appendix 1: Ghana Travel Map
Appendix 2: Ghanaian Currency
Appendix 3: Highlife Tree
Appendix 4: Interview with Professor Kwabena Nketia
Appendix 5: Interview Photos
Appendix 6: Song Lyrics
Glossary
Bibliography

About the author

Nana Abena Amoah-Ramey is adjunct assistant professor in the Department of African American and African diaspora studies at Indiana University.

Product details

• Authors: Nana Abena Amoah-Ramey
• Assisted by: A.B. Assensoh (Foreword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781498564687
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-6468-7
• No. of pages: 196
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, HISTORY / Africa / West, MUSIC / Ethnomusicology, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / International, Politics & government, World Music, Theory of music & musicology, African History, Gender studies: women, West Africa, Gender studies: women & girls, World music & regional styles