Highlife Saturday night [electronic resource] : popular music and social change in urban Ghana / Nate Plageman.
Plageman, Nate, 1978-
2013
ML3917.G43 P53 2013eb
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Title Highlife Saturday night [electronic resource] : popular music and social change in urban Ghana / Nate Plageman.
Author Plageman, Nate, 1978-
ISBN 9780253007254 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780253007292 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780253007339 (e-book)
Publication Details Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.
Language English
Description xvi, 318 p. : ill.
Call Number ML3917.G43 P53 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.4/8409667
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Series African expressive cultures
Ethnomusicology multimedia
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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.

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