| Highlife Saturday Night: Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana Contributor(s): Plageman, Nathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0253007259 ISBN-13: 9780253007254 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $72.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - West - Music | Ethnomusicology |
| Dewey: 306.484 |
| LCCN: 2012026045 |
| Series: African Expressive Cultures |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.36" W x 9.32" (1.30 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - West Africa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 fueled the music's emergence, evolution, and explosive popularity. This book is generously enhanced by audiovisual material on the Ethnomusicology Multimedia website. |