Highlife
Ghana's century-old dance band sound
Highlife je zahodnoafriška plesna glasba, ki se je oblikovala v Gani v začetku dvajsetega stoletja in se pridružila akanskim melodičnim in ritmičnim tradicijam zahodnim plesnim instrumentom. To je postala ena izmed temeljnih priljubljenih glasbe v regiji in oblikovala veliko tistega, kar je sledilo.
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.
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Države
- Gana30
- Nigerija25
- Združeno kraljestvo6
- Združene države3
- Benin2
- Haiti1
- Litva1
- Sao Tome in Principe1
- Sierra Leone1
Mesta in mesta
- Lagos (city), Nigerija7
- Accra, Gana4
- London, Združeno kraljestvo4
- Kumasi, Gana3
- Abia State, Nigerija2
- Akim Oda, Gana2
- Ashanti, Gana2
- Ebonyi State, Nigerija2
- Edo State, Nigerija2
- Enugu State, Nigerija2
- Lagos (state), Nigerija2
- Western, Gana2
Nekateri umetniki
- Adekunle GoldLagos
- Aralola OlamuyiwaLagos
- Ibibio Sound MachineZdruženo kraljestvo
- KaletaPorto-Novo
- KulioNigerija
- Orlando OwohOsogbo
- Yemi AladeNigerija
- Zak AbelLondon
- Holy BoyEbonyi State
- MugeezGana
- OsibisaLondon
- Ebo TaylorCape Coast
- GyakieKumasi
- Gyedu-Blay AmbolleyGana
- Huw Marc BennettLondon
- Uwa DivaEdo State
- KharismaLagos
- KharismaNigerija
- MarijataGana
- Orlando JuliusIlesa
- Pat ThomasAshanti
- Benny MorganAkim Oda
- CEEDI3GHAccra
- Randy WestonBrooklyn
Odgovori na vprašanja
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.