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LEADER: 01736cam a22003374a 4500
001 2012026045
003 DLC
005 20130509082656.0
008 120626s2013 inua bk 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2012026045
020 $a9780253007254 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780253007292 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a9780253007339 (e-book)
040 $aIEN/DLC$cIEN$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $af-gh---
050 00 $aML3917.G43$bP53 2013
082 00 $a306.4/8409667$223
100 1 $aPlageman, Nate,$d1978-
245 10 $aHighlife Saturday night :$bpopular music and social change in urban Ghana /$cNate Plageman.
260 $aBloomington :$bIndiana University Press,$cc2013.
300 $axvi, 318 p. :$bill., maps ;$c23 cm.
490 1 $aAfrican expressive cultures
490 1 $aEthnomusicology multimedia
504 $aIncludes discography (p. 279-287), bibliographical references (p. 289-310), and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 $aDance music$xSocial aspects$zGhana.
650 0 $aHighlife (Music)$zGhana$xHistory and criticism.
651 0 $aGhana$xSocial conditions.
830 0 $aAfrican expressive cultures.
830 0 $aEthnomusicology multimedia.