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Ghana: Highlife to Hiplife 10/06/2015

  Popular music in Ghana & Nigeria

• Military rass an!s  rass an! Highlife  "fro#eat $Nigeria%

• Palmine $guitar% 'u(u $Nigeria/)oru#a%

• Palmine $guitar%  Guitar*#an! highlife  "fro*fun+ & "fro*roc+

 Hiplife $Ghana%

• Palmine

o ,olling sno#all metaphor: -tarte! as Guitar #ase! then ent

in many !irections

o Palmine . est "frican Guitar ase! an! small

percussions

o ru or+e! on sailing essels an! #rought guitar an!

3uropean !ances an! music styles4 "lso ari##ean influences4

$sailors #rought music%

o "lso #rought other instruments that ere integral to the other

forms that came after Palmine

• 3lectric  "frofun+ "fro roc+  Highlife in Ghana

• oo+ at Mensa

  3arly guitar music

• a4 lath 17th c4 early 20th c4 ru mariners of i#eria

• a4 1720s*80s 9mports of gramophone recor!s

• a4 1780s: Palmine an! relate! guitar genres

o 3: ;Mami ata< aa Mensah

u#an ,hythmic tra!itions

  oo Nimo

  -oul Music in est "frica

 

 ;-oul to -oul concert< accra Ghana

• ilson Pic+ett

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  Hip hop in Ghana: ,eggie ,oc+stone

  Ho !i! hip hop #ecome Ghanaian=

   "esthetic >alue  cele#rity  economic alue  social & cultural

alue

 

alue transformation: transformation of one alue to another alue  ,eggie: ?a+e #eautiful music to goo! #usiness4