MUS 2420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ashanti People, Ga-Adangbe People, Homowo
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Setting the context of a musical performance such as the place the structure of the performing space, or behavior of those present. Setting in its broadest sense encompasses the multiple contexts- a city a concert hall, a park, a home- where music is conceived, created, transmitted, performed and remembered. Around 75% of the population of europe, north america, south america, the. Caribbean and oceania lived in cities and it is estimated that by 2030 both asia and. Africa will have more numbers of urban dwellers that other countries. Because of this we will look at the cities soundscape. Ghanaian highlife is sometimes called its national music". Highlife originally referred to the music of the upper-class. Originated with ballroom orchestra and european audiences. European colonists influenced the sound of highlife introducing sea chanteys and folk songs as well as instruments of the military band. Piano music and church hymns were influential in creating sound" of highlife.
