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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Main Author: John Collins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Association for the Study of Popular Music 2011-01-01
Series:IASPM Journal
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Online Access:https://iaspmjournal.net/index.php/IASPM_Journal/article/view/563/576