Nate Plageman

Highlife Saturday Night (eBook, ePUB)

Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The story of highlife music and the culture that revolved around it in Ghana, before and after independence-includes links to audiovisual content. Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana-when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor-in a penetrating look at musical leisure during a time of social, political, and cultural change. Framing dance band "highlife" music as a central medium through which Ghanaians negotiated gendered and generational social relations, Nate Plageman shows how popular music was central to the rhythm of daily life in a West African nation. He traces the history of highlife in urban Ghana during much of the twentieth century and documents a range of figures who fueled the music's emergence, evolution, and explosive popularity. This book is generously enhanced by audiovisual material on the Ethnomusicology Multimedia website.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253007339
• Artikelnr.: 75568193

Autorenporträt

Nate Plageman is Assistant Professor of History at Wake Forest University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Ethnomusicology Multimedia Series Preface
Introduction: The Historical Importance of Urban Ghana's Saturday Nights
1. Popular Music, Political Authority, and Social Possibilities in the
Southern Gold Coast, 1890-1940
2. The Making of a Middle Class: Urban Social Clubs and the Evolution of
Highlife Music, 1915-1940
3. The Friction on the Floor: Negotiating Nightlife in Accra, 1940-1960
4. "The Highlife was Born in Ghana": Politics, Culture, and the Making of a
National Music, 1950-1965
5. "We Were the Ones Who Composed the Songs": The Promises and Pitfalls of
Being a Bandsman, 1945-1970
Epilogue
Glossary
Notes
Discography
Bibliography
Index