Dance music which originated in Ghana in the early twentieth century, a fusion of traditional rhythms and European influences, including military brass band music, church hymns, and sea shanties.
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    URL : www.notz.com/african_highlife.htm
    notz.com. Highlife Music with audio examples and including a lecture ... highlife played commonly in clubs and bars, Nana Kwame Ampadu's African Brothers, ...[2008/12/19]
  • Highlife - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    URL : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlife
    Saka Acquaye and His African Ensemble are featured on Nonesuch Explorer Series ... Watch Highlife Music Videos ... Genres of African popular music ...[2008/12/29]
  • African Music Source: Music of Africa
    URL : www.africanmusicsource.com/west_african_highlife_band
    Featured artists include Kotoja, Nigerian Brothers and West African Highlife Band. ... revive the 'highlife' dance classics, with a fusion of African and world ...[2008/10/18]
  • West African Highlife Band
    URL : westafricanhighlifeband.com
    West African Highlife Band web site ... West African music veterans. Together, they revive the "highlife" ... West African Highlife Band with Youssou N'Dour ...[2004/07/14]
  • African Music Pages - A introduction to African Highlife
    URL : www.alisdair.com/africanpages/africanhighlife.html
    Not just an Anglophone African phenomenon, highlife influenced. ... Highlife Piccadilly African Music on 45 rpm records in the UK, 1954-1981 ...[2008/11/03]
  • What is Highlife?
    URL : www.africanmusicforum.com/community/what_is_highlife-t460.0.html
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHighlife is a musical genre that originated in Ghana and spread to Sierra Leone and Nigeria in the 1920s and other West African ...[2009/01/02]
  • highlife: Afropop Style -- Ghana, Nigeria, West Africa
    URL : www.afropop.org/explore/style_info/ID/17/Highlife
    highlife, Ghana, Nigeria, West Africa, , , highlife ... releases for the African Brothers, the City Boys, and other highlife groups. ...[2008/12/07]
  • Amazon.com: SALUTE TO HIGHLIFE PIONEERS: West African Highlife Band: Music
    URL : www.amazon.com/SALUTE-HIGHLIFE-PIONEERS-African-Highlife/dp/B00004TJDR
    Amazon.com: SALUTE TO HIGHLIFE PIONEERS: West African Highlife Band: Music ... The best of West African Highlife dance music! ...[2008/12/26]
  • West African Highlife Band
    URL : www.142throckmortontheatre.com/event.php?eventid=429
    The Bay Area's own West African Highlife Band, led by Ken Okulolo, is renowned ... Highlife music ruled the West African club scene before the disco era, and this ...[2008/12/30]
  • A. Guitar
    URL : www.notz.com/african_guitar.htm
    notz.com. African Guitar. Soukous, Ghanian Highlife, Fender Strat, Lokassa Ya Mbongo, Nyombe and Pepe Kalle, Transcriptions, Real Audio, Midi.[2006/08/21]
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