• Highlife Saturday night : popular music and social change in urban Ghana
  • [NT 42944] Record Type: [NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
    [NT 47348] Title Information: popular music and social change in urban Ghana
    [NT 47261] Author: PlagemanNate, 1978-
    [NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    [NT 47351] Place of Publication: Bloomington
    [NT 47263] Published: Indiana University Press;
    [NT 47352] Year of Publication: 2013
    [NT 47264] Description: 1 online resource (336 p.).
    [NT 47298] Series: Ethnomusicology multimedia
    [NT 47266] Subject: Highlife (Music) - Ghana -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Dance music - Social aspects - Ghana -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Ghana - Social conditions -
    [NT 51458] Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253007339/
    [NT 47265] Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780253007339electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 025300733Xelectronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780253007254hbk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780253007292pbk.
    [NT 60779] 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
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