What was considered, in the 1950s, "Ghanaian" music?
The present article aims to explicate the main constituent elements of an artifact of popular culture, the highlife musical style, which emerged in the early 1900s on the Gold Coast and, by the 1950s, had been linked by political actors to the anti-colonial effort. The practices associated with this...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
2020
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| Online Access: | https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/proa/article/view/17606 |
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| Summary: | The present article aims to explicate the main constituent elements of an artifact of popular culture, the highlife musical style, which emerged in the early 1900s on the Gold Coast and, by the 1950s, had been linked by political actors to the anti-colonial effort. The practices associated with this style of music, from various parts of the globe, were ideologically taken as the signs par excellence of an "African" and "Ghanaian" distinctiveness. In this paper I intend to explain the process of Africanization of the practices associated with such musical style. To do so, I will elaborate a mapping about the theories on popular culture and, later, I will list bibliographic data related to the historical context analyzed. |
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| ISSN: | 2175-6015 |
