The Introduction of Popular Music Studies to Ghanaian Universities
Although the teaching if of African traditional and art music in Ghanaian universities began from independence in 1957, the introduction of local popular music has taken much longer, partly a consequence of imported high-art notion that treated popular music as trivial, ephemeral and low-brow. Altho...
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Language: | English |
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International Association for the Study of Popular Music
2011-01-01
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Series: | IASPM Journal |
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Online Access: | https://iaspmjournal.net/index.php/IASPM_Journal/article/view/563/576 |