Nathan Plageman

Highlife Saturday Night

Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 162mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780253007254
• ISBN-10: 0253007259
• Artikelnr.: 35331261

Autorenporträt

Nathan Plageman

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