MUSIC 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Afrobeat, Lingala, Fuji Music
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Ghanaian highlife: historical and socio-cultural background. Term coined in the 1920s, was urban music that emerged as a major response to the challenge of urban ball dancing. The irst highlife sounds were noiced in the gold coast (present-day ghana) during the late 1920"s. The roots of highlife can traced across the enire western coast of africa, which were irmly embedded in the clubs and dance halls of the colonial gold coast. Highlife popular music started relaively against a ballroom dance orchestral style as palm-wine music. It began at the ime when various european inluences, such as church music, military brass band and sea shanies, had been appropriates, and blended with. African inluences on musical forms: the development of highlife. The highlife styles began to develop during the 1930s and 40s, and spread along the. West african coastal areas, and the belgian congo.
