| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
popular music and social change in urban Ghana |
| Author: |
PlagemanNate, 1978- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Bloomington |
| Published: |
Indiana University Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
2013 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (336 p.). |
| Series: |
Ethnomusicology multimedia |
| Subject: |
Highlife (Music) - Ghana - |
| Subject: |
Dance music - Social aspects - Ghana - |
| Subject: |
Ghana - Social conditions - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253007339/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: |
9780253007339electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
025300733Xelectronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780253007254hbk. |
| ISBN: |
9780253007292pbk. |
| Content Note: |
Introduction: the historical importance of urban Ghana's Saturday nights -- Popular music, political authority, and social possibilities inthe 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 |