Plageman, Nate,  1978- <br/><br/>
Highlife Saturday night  popular music and social change in urban Ghana /  [electronic resource] : 
Nate Plageman. 
 - Bloomington :  Indiana University Press,  2013. 
 - xvi, 318 p. :  ill. 
 - African expressive cultures Ethnomusicology multimedia .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Dance music--Social aspects--Ghana.<br/>Highlife (Music)--History and criticism.--Ghana
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Ghana--Social conditions.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>ML3917.G43  / P53 2013eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.4/8409667