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Author Amoah-Ramey, Nana Abena, author.

Title Female highlife performers in Ghana : expression, resistance, and advocacy / Nana Abena Amoah-Ramey ; foreword by A.B. Assensoh.

Publication Info. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 172 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword / A.B. Assensoh -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Inception of My Ideology, Formations: Research Method and Preamble -- Evolution and transformation of highlife musical tradition -- "Her-Storical" Legacy: Female Highlife Musicians in Ghana -- Resistance and Survival: The Trailblazing Stories ; I Analyze! -- The New Deal: New Era of Contemporary Ghanaian Music: From Globalization to Modernization -- Conclusion: Future research : Theoretical Queries and Underpinnings --Appendix 1: Ghana Travel Map -- Appendix 2: Ghanaian Currency -- Appendix 3: Highlife Tree -- Appendix 4: Interview with Professor Kwabena Nketia -- Appendix 5: Interview Photos -- Appendix 6: Song Lyrics -- Glossary -- Bibliography.
Summary This book takes an ethnomusicological approach to demonstrate the historical importance of female performers of Highlife music in Ghana.
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Subject Highlife (Music) -- Ghana -- History and criticism.
Highlife (Music)
Ghana.
Women musicians -- Ghana.
Popular music -- Political aspects -- Ghana -- History.
Women musicians.
History.
Popular music.
Popular music -- Political aspects.
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Amoah-Ramey, Nana Abena. Female highlife performers in Ghana. Lanham : Lexington Books, 2018 9781498564663 (DLC) 2018016037
ISBN 9781498564670 (electronic book)
1498564674 (electronic book)
9781498564663 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

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