Highlife Saturday night
Subtitle: popular music and social change in urban Ghana
By: Nate Plageman
Series: African expressive cultures; Ethnomusicology multimedia; African expressive cultures; Ethnomusicology multimedia
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780253007254; 9780253007292; 9780253007339
Subjects: Social conditions; History and criticism; Highlife (Music); Dance music
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the historical importance of urban Ghana's Saturday nights; title: Popular music, political authority, and social possibilities in the southern Gold Coast, 1890-1940; title: The making of a middle class: urban social clubs and the evolution of highlife music, 1915-1940; title: The friction on the floor: negotiating nightlife in Accra, 1940-1960; title: "The highlife was born in Ghana": politics, culture, and the making of a national music, 1950-1965; title: "We were the ones who composed the songs": the promises and pitfalls of being a bandsman, 1945-1970.