Highlife Unbound : Highlife as Trilocal and Transnational Music Culture 1950-1967 /
Highlife Unbound unfolds the trilocal and transnational history of Highlife, Anglophone West Africa's first modern popular music. It introduces Highlife as a travelling cultural practice and trilocal community by investigating the interrelatedness of Highlife-making in the Gold Coast/Ghana, Nig...
Main Author:
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2026.
Series:
Africa Multiple ;
6.
Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
Subjects:
Online Access: Login to view Source
Tags: Add Tag
Call Number: N5305
| Summary: | Highlife Unbound unfolds the trilocal and transnational history of Highlife, Anglophone West Africa's first modern popular music. It introduces Highlife as a travelling cultural practice and trilocal community by investigating the interrelatedness of Highlife-making in the Gold Coast/Ghana, Nigeria, and England between 1950 and 1967, the time when Highlife became modern popular music culture. It does this through an in-depth focus on travelling musicians, Highlife in three countries, and the circulation and appropriation of recorded music. The African Diaspora contact points of music-makers from the Caribbean and West Africa in England are an important subject of the book as are the music's forgotten London sites. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004733961 |