caa a22 4500 386388687 CHVBK 20180307112107.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0261143000003524 doi S0261143000003524 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0261143000003524 Collins John The early history of West African highlife music [Elektronische Daten] [John Collins] Highlife is one of the myriad varieties of acculturated popular dance-music styles that have been emerging from Africa this century and which fuse African with Western (i.e. European and American) and islamic influences. Besides highlife, other examples include kwela, township jive and mbaqanga from South Africa, chimurenga from Zimbabwe, the benga beat from Kenya, taraab music from the East African coast, Congo jazz (soukous) from Central Africa, rai music from North Africa, juju and apala music from western Nigeria, makossa from the Cameroons and mbalax from Senegal. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Popular Music Cambridge University Press 8/3(1989-10), 221-230 0261-1430 8:3<221 1989 8 PMU https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143000003524 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143000003524 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Collins John NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Popular Music Cambridge University Press 8/3(1989-10), 221-230 0261-1430 8:3<221 1989 8 PMU CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge