Highlife is a Ghanaian music genre that originated along the coastal cities of present-day Ghana in the 19th century. Igbo highlife · Palm-wine music · Rex Lawson

21 окт. 2021 г. · Music for the elites: African highlife music began in the 1920s in the music clubs of Ghana's capital, Accra, along with other coastal cities.

First there was the imported influences of foreign sailors that became 'palm-wine' highlife; second, that of the colonial military brass-bands that became adaha ...

18 окт. 2022 г. · The origins of Highlife Music. We can trace its origins back to the late 19th century with its roots in the original Ghanaian palm-wine music.

The birthplace of highlife music is often traced to the coastal towns of Ghana and Nigeria during the late 19th century. Emerging as a synthesis of traditional ...

Highlife is a genre of West African music that emerged in the late 19th century, primarily in Ghana, and later spread to Nigeria.

Although the word 'highlife' was not coined until the 1920s, its origins date to the late nineteenth century English-speaking West African countries of Liberia,.

20 нояб. 2023 г. · Highlife is a West African music genre that originated in Ghana in the late 19th century. Subsequently, it extended its reach to western Nigeria.

Highlife is a music genre that originated in Ghana at the turn of the 20th century and the international interest in Africa's Gold Coast, as it was known.