Course Description
This survey course is designed to cover a wide variety of musical expression, including the traditional, neo-traditional, and contemporary mass mediated popular music known as Afro-Pop. The course will offer an ethnomusicological perspective on the social context of the music process, music and historical narrative, music and religious ritual, indigenous court music traditions, contemporary issues in Afro-Pop (from highlife to hiplife), and various aspects of performance practices in Ghana.