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Female Highlife Performers in Ghana - Expression, Resistance, and Advocacy (Paperback)
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Female Highlife Performers in Ghana - Expression, Resistance, and Advocacy (Paperback)
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This book offers a detailed analysis of the history of female
musicians in the Highlife music tradition of the Republic of Ghana,
particularly the challenges and constraints these women faced and
overcame. Highlife - a form of West African music infusing Ghana's
traditional Akan dance rhythms and melodies with European
instruments and harmonies - grew in popularity throughout the 20th
century and hit its peak in the 1970s and 1980s. Although women
played significant roles in the evolution and survival of the
genre, few of their contributions have been thoroughly explored or
documented. Despite being disregarded and ignored in many spheres,
female Highlife musicians thrived and became trailblazers in the
Ghanaian music industry, making particularly vibrant contributions
to Highlife music in the 1970s. This book presents the voices of
female Highlife artists and documents the ideological
transformations expressed through their musical works, exploring
the challenges they confronted throughout their musical careers and
their contributions to music and culture in Ghana.
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