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BL
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876892
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Plageman, Nate,1978-
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| Title & Author
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Highlife Saturday night : : popular music and social change in urban Ghana /\ Nate Plageman.
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| Publication Statement
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Bloomington :: Indiana University Press,, 2013.
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| Series Statement
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African expressive cultures
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Ethnomusicology multimedia
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1 online resource.
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| ISBN
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025300733X
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: 9780253007339
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0253007259
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0253007291
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9780253007254
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9780253007292
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Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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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Dance music-- Social aspects-- Ghana.
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Highlife (Music)-- Ghana-- History and criticism.
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Dance music-- Social aspects.
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Highlife (Music)
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HISTORY-- Africa-- West.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.
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Social conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.
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Ghana, Social conditions.
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Ghana.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.4/8409667
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ML3917.G43P53 2013
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