TY  - BOOK
AU  - Plageman,Nate
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Highlife Saturday night: popular music and social change in urban Ghana 
AV  - ML3917.G43 P53 2013eb
U1  - 306.4/8409667 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Dance music
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Ghana
KW  - Highlife (Music)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10634610
ER  -