Palm-wine music
Palm-wine music | |
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Stylistic origins | |
Cultural origins | Liberia and Sierra Leone's Kru people in the 1920s |
Derivative forms |
Palm-wine music
It would eventually gain popularity after Sierra Leone musician Ebenezer Calendar recorded songs in the 1950s and 1960s and continues to hold a small amount of that popularity.[6]
Etymology
Palm-wine music was named after a drink, palm wine, made from the naturally fermented sap of the oil palm, which was drunk at gatherings where early African guitarists played.
History
This music was created from a fusion of local and foreign sailors, dock workers, and local working-class people who would go to palm-wine bars to drink and listen to music. Portable instruments and local string and percussion merged to create this style. It was out of this genre that the traditional two-finger plucking of a guitar came when musicians played it similarly to how they played the local lute or harp. This style was typically played in a syncopated 4/4 metre.[5]
1920s–1940s
In the 1920s, a Kru taught Ghanaian highlife guitarist
1950s–1960s
Palm-wine music was first popularized by
Agya Koo Nimo is another renowned Ghanaian singer who is popularly referred to as the "King of Palm-wine music". The "Grandfather of Highlife", as he's often called, uses his music to tell life stories which has greatly influenced the Ghanaian and other West African music scenes. He was awarded the lifetime achievers award at the
See also
References
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- JSTOR 40553118.
- ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
- ^ "The story of Ghanaian highlife". 2004-09-28. Archived from the original on 2020-03-23. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
- ^ S2CID 162351116.
- ^ a b "KOO NIMO: PALMWINE MUSIC AND STORYTELLING". MusicXChange. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
- ^ "Palm Wine Music". Guide to the World of Music. 2018-05-10. Archived from the original on 2020-10-08. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
- ^ "Palm Wine Music". Guide to the World of Music. 2018-05-10. Retrieved 2020-08-21.