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Blending historical documents, oral histories, and musical recordings, Pan-African Resonance: Music, Migration, and Everyday Practice in London and Accra shows how people forged an enduring practice of pan-Africanism through their daily lives.
A social and cultural history of Ghanaian and Caribbean musicians, students, and professionals who crossed the African-Atlantic during the twentieth century in search of new opportunities and created new ways of belonging based in music.
Table of contents
Introduction
Part I
1
Music and Migration in African-Atlantic London, 1946-1962
2
Nation Building, Homecoming, and Musical Reverberation in Accra, 1940s-1966
3
Highlife and Calypso: Pan-African Music-Making in Accra, 1950s-1966
Part II
4
Making New Music for a New Generation: Black London, 1962-1980
5
Nation, Gender, and Music in Post-Nkrumah Accra, 1966-1980
6
“African Music on African Land”
Reggae and Accra’s Pan-African Music, 1966-1980
Conclusion
About the author
Alison Okuda
Dr. Okuda is Associate Professor of History at Worcester State University in Massachusetts. Pan-African Resonance is her first book.
Alison Okuda, Ph.D. 