| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
African expressive cultures
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Ethnomusicology multimedia
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African expressive cultures.
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Ethnomusicology multimedia.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dance music -- Social aspects -- Ghana.
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Dance music -- Social aspects. |
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Ghana. |
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Dance music. |
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Highlife (Music) -- Ghana -- History and criticism.
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Highlife (Music) |
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Ghana -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780253007254 0253007259 (DLC) 2012026045 |
| ISBN |
025300733X electronic book |
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9780253007339 electronic book |
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9780253007254 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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0253007259 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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9780253007292 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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0253007291 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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