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Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013

1 online resource (xvi, 318 p.) : ill

ISBN 9780253007339 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780253007254 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780253007292 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Ethnomusicology multimedia

aAfrican expressive cultures

aEthnomusicology multimedia

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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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