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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 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

Highlife (Music) --- Dance music --- Hi-life (Music) --- High-life (Music) --- Popular music --- Instrumental music --- Music --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- Ghana --- Social conditions.