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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 fuelled the music's emergence, evolution, and explosive popularity. This book is generously enhanced by audiovisual material on the Ethnomusicology Multimedia website.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: Highlife Saturday Night
• Subtitle: Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana
• Author: Nathan Plageman
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9780253007254
• ISBN: 0253007259
• ID: 04869877
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Weight: 28 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. December 2012

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