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Ghana: High-Life And Other Popular Music

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Sugar Soup 2. Down the Congo 3. Saturday Night 4. Drum Festival 5. Concomba 6. Beyond Africa 7. Congo Beat 8. Echoes of the African Forest 9. Bus Conductor 10. Ebony 11. Kenya Sunset 12. Awuben 13. Akudonno

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Saka Acquaye and His African Ensemble: Ghana: High-Life And Other Popular Music

Read "Ghana: High-Life And Other Popular Music" reviewed by AAJ Staff


With all the sophistication that accompanied highlife's ascendancy as the popular music of West Africa, its roots remain somewhat obscured. Highlife, born in Ghana, incorporates rhythmic styles and instruments from Cuba and the Caribbean, jazz styles from America, and traditional music from West Africa. In the '50s, it was a revolutionary mix. By the '60s, highlife ...


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