Highlife Saturday night : popular music and social change in urban Ghana /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Plageman, Nate, 1978-
Imprint:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	African expressive cultures Ethnomusicology multimedia African expressive cultures. Ethnomusicology multimedia.
Subject:	Dance music -- Social aspects -- Ghana. Highlife (Music) -- Ghana -- History and criticism. Dance music -- Social aspects. Highlife (Music) Social conditions Ghana -- Social conditions. Ghana. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11169931

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ISBN:	025300733X 9780253007339 9780253007254 0253007259 9780253007292 0253007291
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana-when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor-in this 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 20th century and documents a range of figures that.
Other form:	Print version: 9780253007254 0253007259

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