Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.
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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.
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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.
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22573/ctt16gjksm
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3F0418C0-B8C9-405F-977A-E8986BC635E5
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0253007259
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Dance music-- Social aspects-- Ghana.
Highlife (Music)-- Ghana-- History and criticism.
Dance music-- Social aspects.
Highlife (Music)
HISTORY-- Africa-- West.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.