Highlife Saturday Night: Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana

by Nathan Plageman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253007291
• ISBN13: 9780253007292
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher