Highlife Saturday Night

<p><i>Highlife Saturday Night </i>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 daily life in a West African nation. He traces the history of highlife in urban Ghana during much of the 20th century and documents a range of figures that fueled the music's emergence evolution and explosive popularity. This book is generously enhanced by audiovisual material on the Ethnomusicology Multimedia website.</p>