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Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Ethnomusicology Multimedia Series Preface
- Introduction: The Historical Importance of Urban Ghana's Saturday Nights
- 1. Popular Music, Political Authority, and Social Possibilities in the Southern Gold Coast, 1890-1940
- 2. The Making of a Middle Class: Urban Social Clubs and the Evolution of Highlife Music, 1915-1940
- 3. The Friction on the Floor: Negotiating Nightlife in Accra, 1940-1960
- 4. "The Highlife was Born in Ghana": Politics, Culture, and the Making of a National Music, 1950-1965
- 5. "We Were the Ones Who Composed the Songs": The Promises and Pitfalls of Being a Bandsman, 1945-1970
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Notes
- Discography
- Bibliography
- Index