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Collins, [Edmund] John:
Highlife Time 3. Third revised edition
Accra: DAkpabli & Associates, 2018. 632 p.
ISBN 978-9988276195

CONTENTS

Prologue
Introductory chapter

Section One
Palmwine Highlife, Guitar Bands and Concert Parties
Chapter 1
Kwaa Mensah and ‘Sam’ – The grand old men of palmwine guitar
Chapter 2
The Yaa Amponsah story
Chapter 3
The concert party – Popular theatre and comic highlife opera
Chapter 4
The concert party musician E.K. Nyame
Chapter 5
The falsetto singer Kobina Okai (Okine)
Chapter 6
The Jaguar Jokers concert party
Chapter 7
The Nigerian musical clown and Ghana state comedian Ajax Bukana
Chapter 8
Yamoah, Nana Ampadu, Eddie Donkor and Konadu 
Chapter 9
Adom Professionals – The blind concert party band 
Chapter 10
T.O. Jazz and his friend S.K. Oppong
Chapter 11
Some More Greats – Kakaiku, Gyasi, Onyina, F. Kenya, Adjekum, Yeboah and Ani Johnson

Section Two
Ghanaian Highlife Dance Bands and Their Musicians
Chapter 12
E.T. Mensah, the ‘king’ of dance-band highlife
Chapter 13
The Tempos travels In West Africa
Chapter 14
King Bruce, the Black Beats and Sackah Acquaye 
Chapter 15
The Benin Republic’s Ignace de Souza and his Black Santiagos in Ghana
Chapter 16
Stan Plange of the Broadway and Uhuru Dance-Bands
Chapter 17
Highlife pioneers; Jerry Hansen, Tommy Grippman, Ray Ellis and Saka Acquaye
Chapter 18
Osibisa from dance band highlife to afro-rock
Chapter 19
Kofi Ayivor from highlife to high-tension funk
Chapter 20
The highlife composers – Oscarmore, Ebo Taylor, Joe Eyison, Kwadwo Donkoh and Joe Mensah 
Chapter 21
Gyedu Blay-Ambolley blends highlife and funk
Chapter 22
Sammy Odoh champion of Ghana musicians

Section Three
Interactions between Highlife and New Traditional Music
Chapter 23
Goombay, gome and asiko
Chapter 24
Akan konkoma and ewe borborbor
Chapter 25
The simpa music of dagbon
Chapter 26
Otoo Lincoln the inventor of the Ga kpanlogo

Section Four
Back To Roots
Chapter 27
The traditional musical background
Chapter 28
Koo Nimo – Ghana’s bard of folk highlife guitar
Chapter 29
Kofi Ghanaba – highlife to jazz and the African heritage
Chapter 30
Ghanaian/Nigerian drum communion Kofi Ghanaba, Bayo Martins and Remi Kabaka
Chapter 31
Wulomei and the Ga ‘cultural group’ explosion
Chapter 32
Kwesi AsareGhana’s ambassador of ritual drumming

Section Five
Outside Influences – 1950s to Present & Resulting Fusions
Chapter 33
Louis Armstrong in Ghana
Chapter 34
Pop music and its impact in Ghana and Nigeria during the 1960s and 1970s
Chapter 35
Soul To Soul, Festac, Panafest and the Dubois Centre
Chapter 36
Reggae and afro-reggae 
Chapter 37
Live music collapses disco ‘burger highlife’ rises
Chapter 38
Ghanaian rap and ‘hiplife’ (hiphop-highlife)

Section Six
Highlife, Folkloric Groups & Afro-Fusion since the 1990s
Chapter 39
A new generation of post 1990s highlifers 
Chapter 40
Biographies on some still-operating oldtime survivors 
Chapter 41
The rise of folkloric cross-overs and neo-traditional artists
Chapter 42
Current afro-rock, afro beat and afro-jazz 

Section Seven
The Gospel Explosion and Women on Stage
Chapter 43
Ghanaian Gospel Music
Chapter 44
Women Enter Ghanaian Pop Music and the Stories of the Concert Party Performer Vida Oparabea and Singing Diva Bibie Brew
Chapter 45
The Musical Prophet Safo and his Kristo Asafo Mission

Section Eight
Nigerian Highllfe, Juju Music, Fela’s Afrobeat and other Nigerian Popular Music Styles
Chapter 46
Yoruba juju-music, apala and fuji
Chapter 47
Nigerian highlife and the makossa of neighbouring Cameroons
Chapter 48
The Bini highlife of ‘Sir’ Victor Uwaifo
Chapter 49
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti – Nigeria’s controversial afro-beat king
Chapter 50
Segun Bucknor and the 1960s-1970s Nigerian pop scene
Chapter 51
The Ozzidi, afro-reggae and afro-disco of Sonny Okosun

Section Nine
The Popular Music of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Francophone West Africa
Chapter 52
Maringa and the popular music of Sierra Leone
Chapter 53
The Sierra Leone music producer Akie Deen and his Disco Maringas and Discolypsos
Chapter 54
Pop profiles of Liberia
Chapter 55
The popular music of Ghana’s Francophone neighbours – Togo, Benin and Cote d’ivoire

Section Ten
The African Music Business and Afterthoughts 
Chapter 56
West African music business & World Music 
Chapter 57
The Ghanaian and Nigerian Music Unions
Chapter 58
Essiebons Productions in the Early 1980’s and the film ‘Roots to Fruits’ 
Chapter 59
Faisal Helwani, ‘F’ Promotions and the Napoleon Club 
Chapter 60
King Bruce’s views on the popular music business
Chapter 61
Mohammed Malcolm-Ben’s African Feelings Productions
Chapter 62
Bokoor Band, Music Company and Highlife Institute 
Chapter 63
Computerised highlife and the ‘highlife imagination’ 
Chapter 64
After-thoughts the tourist boom, Sahelian, Ghanaian music, the highlife revival and other developments since the mid-1990s, coda, Hiplife, Azonto, Twi Pop, Musiga and the creative arts industry
 
References and Selected Bibliography

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