Highlife Saturday night : popular music and social change in urban Ghana / / Nate Plageman.
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African expressive cultures
Ethnomusicology multimedia |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 318 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the historical importance of urban Ghana's Saturday nights
- Popular music, political authority, and social possibilities in the 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.