Highlife Saturday Night: Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana

Ethnomusicology Multimedia Series Preface

xiii Ethnomusicology Multimedia Series Preface Each of the audio, video, or still image media examples listed below is associated with specific passages in this book, and each example has been assigned a unique persistent uniform resource identifier, or PURL. The PURL points to the location of a specific audio, video, or still image media example on the Ethnomusicology Multimedia website, accessible at www.ethnomultimedia.org. Within the running text of the book, a “PURLnumber”inparenthesesfunctionslikeacitationandimmediately follows the text to which it refers, e.g., (PURL 3.1). The numbers following the word “PURL” relate to the chapter in which the media example is found,andthenumberof PURLscontainedinthatchapter.Forexample, PURL 3.1 refers to the first media example found in chapter three; PURL 3.2 refers to the second media example found in chapter three, and so on. There are two ways to access and playback a specific audio, video, or still image media example. When readers enter into a web browser the full address of the PURL associated with a specific media example, they will be taken to a web page containing that media example as well as a playlist of all of the media examples related to this book. Information about the book and the author is also available through this web page. Once readers have navigated to the Ethnomusicology Multimedia website they may also access media examples by entering into the “Media Segment ID” search field the unique six-digit PURL identifier located at the end of the full PURL address. Readers will be required to electronically sign an end-users license agreement (EULA) the first time they attempt to access a media example on the Ethnomusicology Multimedia Project website. xiv Ethnomusicology Multimedia Series Preface PURL LIST PURL 0.1. “Betu Me Ho Awow” (Come and keep me warm). Source: Professional Uhuru Dance Band. http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/ Plageman/910140 PURL 0.2. “Medzi Me Sigya” (I prefer to be a bachelor). Source: Professional Uhuru Dance Band. http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/ Plageman/910144 PURL0.3.“Alome”(Deathwillcomeinyoursleep).Source:Ramblers Dance Band. http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Plageman/910137 PURL 0.4. “Ama Bonsu” [a woman’s name]. Source: Ramblers Dance Band. http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Plageman/910155 PURL0.5.“Knockon Wood.”Source: RamblersDance Band. http:// purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Plageman/910141 PURL 0.6. “Awusa Dzi Mi” (I am an orphan). Source: Ramblers Dance Band. http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Plageman/910139 PURL 1.1. “Homowo Ese” (Homowo is here). Source: Osu Selected Union. http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Plageman/910143 PURL 1.2. “Nkyrinna” (This generation). Source: B. E. Sackey Band. http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Plageman/910148 PURL 2.1. “The Surviving Members of the Excelsior Orchestra.” Source: Bookor African Popular Musical Archives Foundation. http:// purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Plageman/910097 PURL 2.2. “Dance Program for the Cape Coast Social and Literary ClubBall.”Source:photographbytheauthor.http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/ iudl/em/Plageman/910106 PURL 2.3. “Nana Kwesi Wade Kwahu” (Nana Kwesi what have you doneforme).Source:MexicoRhythmBand.http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/ iudl/em/Plageman/910157 PURL2.4.“TheCapeCoastLightOrchestra(SugarBabies)inEnugu, Nigeria,1937.”Source:BookorAfricanPopularMusicalArchivesFoundation . http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Plageman/910099 PURL3.1.“MedziMedzi”(Iwillenjoy).Source:courtesyof E.T.Mensah and the Tempos Dance Band. http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/ Plageman/910149 PURL 3.2. “Essie Attah” [a woman’s name]. Source: The Red Spots. http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Plageman/910152 xv Ethnomusicology Multimedia Series Preface PURL 3.3. “The Rhythm Aces onstage, 1950s.” Source: Isaac Hudson BruceVanderpuije,DeoGratiasStudio,Accra.http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/ iudl/em/Plageman/910100 PURL3.4.“MembersofAccra’sRhythmandSoundsDancingSchool before an evening out on the town, 1950s.” Source: Margaret Acolatse. http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Plageman/910101 PURL 3.5. “205.” Source: E. T. Mensah and the Tempos Dance Band. http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Plageman/910153 PURL 3.6. “Odo Anigyina” (Love sickness). Source: E. T. Mensah and the Tempos Dance Band. http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/ Plageman/910138 PURL3.7.“MedahoMao”(Iamthereforyou).Source:KingBruceand the Black Beats. http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Plageman/910154 PURL 3.8. “Auntie Christie” [a woman’s name]. Source: Ramblers Dance Band. http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Plageman/910150 PURL3.9.“Agodzi...