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Ghanaian Music

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The traditional and popular music of Ghana, from the polyrhythmic drum-and-dance forms of the Ewe, Akan and Ga peoples to the guitar bands and dance orchestras that grew into highlife. Bell patterns, call-and-response singing and layered percussion run through all of it.

Ghana · emerged Ancient times · peak 20th century

Also called: music of ghana

History

Court and ceremonial drumming traditions met Portuguese guitars, Caribbean rhythms and colonial brass bands on the coast in the early twentieth century, and the cities of Accra and Kumasi turned that mixture into highlife and its successors.

What it sounds like

Bell-pattern timelines under layered drumming
Call-and-response singing
Music and dance as one social event
Guitar-band and dance-band lineages

Beneath it: agbadza, agbekor

Beside it: highlife