Highlife
Ghana's century-old dance band sound
Highlife je zapadnoafrička plesna muzika koja je postala oblik u Gani početkom dvadesetog stoljeća, priključujući se akanskoj melodičkoj i ritmičkoj tradiciji zapadnim plesnim instrumentima. Ona je postala jedna od osnovnih popularnih muzika u regionu i oblikovala je mnogo onoga što je slijedilo.
Origin & history
Highlife developed in coastal Ghana in the early 1900s, as brass-band and dance-band instrumentation met local Akan musical traditions.
It spread to Nigeria and across West Africa through the mid-century, and its guitar styles and horn arrangements run underneath a great deal of later West African popular music, Afrobeats included.
Primjećeni umjetnici
Ganski vođa benda često je zvao kralja visokog života, centralnog u njegovoj eri plesnog benda.
Gdje živi.
Pitanja i odgovori
What is highlife?+
Highlife is a West African dance music that began in Ghana in the early twentieth century, combining Akan musical traditions with Western dance-band instruments.
Where did highlife originate?+
In coastal Ghana, spreading from there to Nigeria and across West Africa.
How old is highlife?+
It dates to the early 1900s, which makes it one of the oldest continuously played popular music genres in West Africa.