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Highlife Giants

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Highlife Giants

By John Collins

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About the book

As West Africa's oldest form of popular music, Highlife was the soundtrack of the independence era and its influence still resonates widely today. Highlife Giants is an intimate portrait of the pioneering artistes of West Africa's vibrant music scene from the 1920s onwards. It is packed full of inside information from interviews with stars including E.T Mensah, Kofo Ghanaba, Bobby Benson and Ignace De Souza, revealing priceless behind-the-scene moments such as Louis Armstrong giving Eddie Okonta...Show more

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9781911115298

Publisher

Cassava Republic Press

Published year

2016

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1

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Highlife Giants

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Paperback

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