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

ISBN: 0253007291

ISBN13: 9780253007292

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

(Part of the African Expressive Cultures Series)

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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...

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