期刊名称：Collegium : Studies across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences
印刷版ISSN：1796-2986
出版年度：2009
卷号：6
出版社：Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
摘要：From the 1950s to the early 1970s Ghana led the way in West Africa with its
popular highlife and Afro-rock music and its viable recording and music production
industry. However, things began to decline from the late 1970s due to a corrupt
military government, followed by two coups, several years of night curfew and
the imposition of massive import duties on musical instruments. Into the music
vacuum came Ghanaian gospel-music (as the churches were not taxed) and hitech
drum-box and synthesizer forms of local music (burgher highlife and hiplife)
that did away with large expensive bands. By the mid-1980s the live commercial
music and entertainment scene was almost at a stand-still, exactly at a time when
there was a growing international interest in African music. However, the Ghanaian
non-commercial gospel-music or computerized forms of music that appeared in
the 1980s and 1990s were too hi-tech for the psychology of the World Music fans,
who demanded ¡°authentic¡± African sounds. Although Ghana was initially unable
to benefit much from the early World Music boom, there have, however, been a
number of important positive spin-offs from this international phenomenon.
