ROOTS TO FRUITS Nº1 GHANAIAN HIGHLIFE by Mirelle van Tulder
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ROOTS TO FRUITS Nº1 GHANAIAN HIGHLIFE by Mirelle van Tulder
Title |
ROOTS TO FRUITS Nº1 GHANAIAN HIGHLIFE |
Author(s)/Editor(s) |
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Publisher | Roots to Fruits |
Pages | 30 |
Dimensions |
270 x 135mm |
Format | Softcover |
Year | 2022 |
Dele Adeyemo’s ‘The Modernizing Beat’ rereads the production of space in a modernizing Ghana through highlife, taking the modernist New Town and Tema Harbour as a case study about how the emergence of the ‘worksong’ has governed urbanization in Ghana.
The beat of highlife’s precursor, the worksong, bound the community together in collective life that was attuned to the rhythm of the tides and cycles of the seasons; the evolution of the highlife sound can tell a story of the circulation of cultures, commodities, and political-economic structures condensed into the spatial forms of a modernizing Ghana.
Editing, Design and Riso printing
Mirelle van Tulder
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Roots to Fruits