Highlife Saturday Night: Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana

The story of highlife music and the culture that revolved around it in Ghana, before and after independence—includes links to audiovisual content.

Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana—when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor—in a 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 gener...