|
Adaha
The Adaha was type of highlife that was played on Flute, flutes, Fife (instrument), fifes, and brass band drums which originated in Ghana in the 19th century and then spread across West Africa during the 1930s History The Adaha was a style of music played in the coastal areas by the Fante people in 1880s. The Adaha music of the Fante was the earliest documented syncopated style of brass band. European and West Indian soldiers taught Africans to read music and to play Brass instrument, brass and Woodwind instrument, woodwind instruments. The music of the colonial military brass bands evolved into Adaha highlife. The local African people created their own blend of brass band music from marches, Polka, polkas and nineteen century ballads. The Adaha music spread throughout the villages which made the people adapt to drums and Call and response (music), call and response singing. It was centered in cities and towns such as Cape Coast and Elmina. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highlife
Highlife is a music genre that started in present-day Ghana in the 19th century, during its history as a colony of the British Empire and through its trade routes in coastal areas. It describes multiple local fusions of African metre and western jazz melodies. It uses the melodic and main rhythmic structures of traditional Akan music, Kpanlogo Music of the Ga people, but is typically played with Western instruments. Highlife is characterized by jazzy horns and multiple guitars which lead the band and its use of the two-finger plucking guitar style that is typical of African music. Recently it has acquired an uptempo, synth-driven sound. Highlife gained popularity in the genre "Native Blues" prior to World War II before production was shut down. After the war its popularity came back within the Igbo people of Nigeria, taking their own traditional guitar riffs and the influence of the Ghanaian highlife performing ideas, mixed and perfected it to form Igbo highlife which becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
