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	Ghana — Highlife in Low Times by Richard Byrne - The Globalist > > Global Music
		Highlife, the signature music of Ghana, is a joyous and complex genre that has had a profound influence on African and world music over the last 70 years.
		Yet, as highlife rode on its wave of success in the era of African independence, few could have predicted that the music of Ghana would eventually be held hostage to its turbulent politics.
		As highlife rode on its wave of success in the era of African independence, few could have predicted that the music of Ghana would eventually be held hostage to its turbulent politics.
	www.theglobalist.com /DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=3870 (1205 words)

	Music of Ghana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Highlife arose among the coastal regions of Ghana and, to a lesser extent Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria and other English-speaking West African colonies.
		Highlife incorporated elements of swing, jazz, rock, ska and soukous, and saw its first inroads into the culture of its neighbors in West Africa and across the rest of the continent.
		In the 1960s, dance highlife was more popular than guitar-band highlife; most of the guitar bands began using the electric guitar until a roots revival in the mid-1970s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Ghana (1216 words)

	HighLife - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HighLife is a cellular automaton similar to Conway's Game of Life.
		It is a two-dimensional, two-state cellular automaton in the "Life family" and is described by the rule B36/S23; that is, a cell is born if it has 3 or 6 neighbors and survives if it has 2 or 3 neighbors.
		Because the rules of HighLife and Conway's Life (rule B3/S23) are similar, many simple patterns in Conway's Life function identically in HighLife.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HighLife (192 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Are we still living the highlife?
		Highlife has just been reborn and its now everyones baby in africa,its uniting Africa too despite ploitical diffrences, Camerounian highlife played in state banquet in Nigeria,Congo highlife played in parties all over Africa,Highlife is everywhere,NO party is Great among Africans here in the USA without soukous,rhumba,Afrobeat and juju.
		Highlife music was a statement of West African oppulence and sophistication; however, the throes of making a living in Africa has made this particular genre of music fade away.It will re-emerge with better days ahead.
		Highlife is not high at the moment, but it has a special place in the musical life of Africa.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/3686512.stm (1742 words)

	highlife: Afropop Style -- Ghana, Nigeria, West Africa
		Highlife, dance music played mostly in Ghana and Nigeria, represents one of the century's first fusions of African roots and western music, and before 1970, it ruled dancefloors across much of West Africa.
		Highlife stars like Pat Thomas, George Darko, and C.K. Mann have all made the journey from country to city to foreign port-of-call.
		Highlife goes on, especially in eastern Nigeria, though on the national scene, it remains overshadowed by widely popular juju, fuji and now reggae.
	www.afropop.org /explore/style_info/ID/17/highlife (961 words)

	Highlife Theory - Existance of God - Gaia, Greek Goddess of Earth
		Highlife Theory shows it as an extremely intelligent organism.
		The previous theories, however, seem to indicate the the this gigantic living organism, is of very low intelligence, approximately equivalent to a single cell microorganism.
		Highlife Theory shows that this one gigantic living organism is by far the most intelligent living thing on earth.
	www.gaia-god.com (1125 words)

	Highlife Music At Low Times — A Rejoinder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The present Talent of highlife Musicians with the influence of Hiplife dwells too much on vulgar sexuality that is at times nauseating and alienates sections of the community.
		To add to this, is the lack of sophistication to their instrumentation partly because of the computer generation of templates for the highlife music and lack of diversity.
		The beat of highlife is dictated by the “Frikyiwa” instrument and is on the three.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/features/artikel.php?ID=55770 (768 words)

	MENSAH, E. T. : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The band entered a period of reorganization and was relaunched as the first fully professional highlife dance band; with trumpet, trombone, reeds, double bass, drums, congas, bongos/clips and maracas, the twelve-piece outfit began recording for Decca c'50: hit singles and early albums established E. Mensah and the Tempos as the top band in Ghana.
		LP The King Of African Highlife Rhythm '69 marked an era drawing to a close; the bigger bands disappeared (having lasted much longer than they did in the West) and Mensah gave up music, turning to government work as a pharmacist.
		Mensah: The King Of Highlife Music '77 and E. Mensah Is Back Again '78 were released, on Afrodisia; he went to Lagos '83 to record Highlife Giants with Victor Olaiya, the 'evil genius' of highlife.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/m/M177.HTM (454 words)

	Encyclopedia: Highlife
		Highlife is a type of music that originated in Ghana near the end of the 19th century and spread to other West African English-speaking countries.
		It is characterized by jazzy horns and multiple guitars which lead the band.
		Highlife George Darko is a revolutionary in Ghanaian hilife music, changing its landscape.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Highlife (395 words)

	African Music on 45 rpm records in the UK, 1954-1981
		These sides are variously Highlife and Afro-tinged jazz, from a band that included the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist Peter King (not the jazz saxophonist of the same name), and trumpeter Mike Falana, also from Nigeria, who later played R&B with Graham Bond.
		This was, in fact, the Ghanaian highlife guitar band Nana Ampadu and the African Brothers, recorded in London during a tour of the UK.
		Highlife: in the context of this article, it's worth noting that this seems to have been used generically, in London, to describe any kind of modern West African music (hence the title of the LP on Melodisc by the juju master Ayinde Bakare (Live the Highlife).
	www.mustrad.org.uk /articles/african.htm (5597 words)

	Florida Horse.Com - 2004 Highlife Cup
		Highlife Farms owners and show sponsors, Kenneth and Joan Sims were on hand to congratulate the winners and to present the Highlife Cup perpetual Trophy.
		Highlife Farms owners and Highlife Cup Sponsors Kenneth and Joan Sims present Champion Silke Rembacz with The Highlife Cup Perpetual Trophy.
		In addition to the Highlife Cup, owners, riders, grooms, officials and competition staff were treated to a night of food, fun and music at the Highlife Farms facility as they hosted the traditional Friday night sponsor party.
	www.floridahorse.com /2004highlifecup.html (366 words)

	Classic Highlife (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This was arguably the golden age of Ghanaian pop music, before the economy completely collapsed, and most of the musicians fled for Europe.
		This album was a must at Nigerian parties in the late seventies and is still immune to age.
		Children in particular like this album because you can dance to the majority of the songs and the trumpet is not overdone as in later versions of highlife.
	www.hallmusic.com /store/music_B0000020TE_Classic-Highlife.html (257 words)

	Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Highlife can be considered a fusion of indigenous dance rhythms and melodies and western influences including regimental music sea shanties and church hymns, which first emerged in the coastal towns of Ghana in the early years of the twentieth century.
		By the 1930s, highlife was established along the West African coast with dozens of bands springing to life in Ghana, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.
		Highlife did however survive in eastern Nigeria, finding a new lease of life in the music of Prince Nico Mbarga, the Oriental Brothers and the Ikengas.
	www.kinzomusicworks.com /Sound%20Advices.htm (648 words)

	TAP Program Notes 1998: Highlife Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The spirit of Sankofa may be seen in the development of highlife music, one of the most popular styles of West African social dance music.
		Brass is now an essential ingredient in highlife music; moreover, highlife’s 4/4 meter resembles the square meter used in military marching music.
		At one time, highlife was considered to be the music of the African elite—or of those who aspired to join it and thus to live the high life.
	www.calacademy.org /research/anthropology/tap/archive/1998/1998-04--highlife.html (634 words)

	E. T. Mensah
		Mensah pioneered the development of the swing-jazz influenced highlife dance-bands that were so popular throughout West Africa in the 1950's and 60's.
		Highlife started as a catch-name for the indigenous songs played at these clubs by such early bands as the Jazz Kings, the Cape Coast Sugar Babies, the Sekondi Nanshamang, and later the Accra Orchestra.
		When E.T. first went to Nigeria in 1950, highlife was hardly known outside the boundaries of Ghana and even by 1953, Nigerian dance bands such as Sammy Akpabot's Band, the Empire Band and Bobby Benson's Band were still playing mostly swing and ballroom music.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/people/pop-up.php?ID=144 (1385 words)

	HIGHLIFE : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The '50s--60s were a golden age, with bands like the Tempos, Black Beats, Uhurus and Broadway in Ghana, Bobby Benson, Rex Lawson, Roy Chicago and Victor Olaiya in Nigeria; and the rural guitar bands had also flourished, in early '50s evolving the concert party, a fusion of highlife and comic theatre.
		By the '70s highlife was perhaps past its peak; juju began to take over in western Nigeria, though highlife was maintained in eastern Nigeria by Celestine Ukwu, Osita Osadebe, Prince Nico, the Ikengas, the Oriental Brothers International Big Band.
		Even in Ghana highlife was affected by the disco invasion, though styles continued to be developed by C.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/h/H108.HTM (320 words)

	Music of Ghana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the 1920s, the word was coined to desribe the dancing of the English colonials to the regimented music of native bands.
		After independence in 1957, the socialist government began encouragin folk music, but highlife remained popular and influences from Trinidadian and Congolese music.
		The most influential early burgher highlife musician was George Darko, whose "Akoo Te Brafo" coined the term and is considered the beginning of the genre.
	www.portaljuice.com /music_of_ghana.html (1166 words)

	Highlife history
		Den ghanesiske highlife musik har rødder i de bysamfund, som etableredes langs den vestafrikanske kyst i forlængelse af kolonitidens oversøiske handel og transportvirksomhed.
		Musikalsk var det en blanding af europæiske selskabsdanse, som foxtrot, og lokale danserytmer, som fante-fiskernes Osibisaba, samt interetniske danse, som Ashiko og Gombe, og guitarmusik fra Liberia, som Dagomba og Mainline.
		Mainline, der menes indført af Kru sømænd fra Liberia, får efterhånden samme musikalske betydning for highlife og palmwinemusikken, som den amerikanske bluesrundgang fik for jazzen.
	frank.boegestroem.mobilixnet.dk /Highlife.html (630 words)

	DressageDaily:Highlife Farms Elite Stallion Roster Continues to Grow
		Highlife Farms, located in Orlando Florida, is a 50 acre full service equestrian complex offering quality stallions as well as tailored instruction for all levels of Equitation, Hunter/Jumper, and Dressage training.
		Focused on providing their clients with a world class, fully outfitted boarding and breeding facility, Highlife Farms new barn is one of the most elegant buildings in America.
		Whether you are planing to breed you mare, or just interested in learning more about quality bloodlines, read more about each one of these fabulous stallions available for breeding by clicking on their name.
	www.dressagedaily.com /2005/dd_200501/dd_20050106.html (305 words)

	E. T. Mensah: Afropop Artist -- Ghana, West Africa
		Trumpeter and bandleader E.T. Mensah, pioneered the development of the swing-jazz influenced highlife dance-bands that were so popular throughout West Africa in the 1950's and 60's.
		Indeed, these urban dance bands became the musical zeitgeist of the optimistic period of early independence.
		In 1948, Mensah formed the Tempos and began playing a new music, highlife, bringing the freedom of jazz and older local guitar styles into the more formal dance band music of the pre-war era.
	www.afropop.org /explore/artist_info/ID/29/E.T.Mensah (393 words)

	Highlife Music :: calabashmusic.com
		Moroccan Rai, Shaabi, Gnawa, West African Highlife, Afro-Beat, Socca, Reggae, Samba, Jazz, Funk and...
		Ekow Alabi connects Highlife and Reggae to fireworks of rhythm and big dancefloors full of...
		This compilation features several gospel highlife bands, including the opening track by the Genesis...
	music.calabashmusic.com /world/Highlife (185 words)

	Highlife
		Highlife Lecture - Slides/Foils and notes from a highlife music lecture given at the State University of New York (Purchase) by Alisdair MacRae-Birch
		Highlife music derived from the blend of European foxtrots and Caribbean kaiso, with African rhythms of Liberia (dagomba), Sierra Leone (ashiko and goombe) and Fante (osibisaba).
		If you forget your mother, you have lost your life," croons Nigeria highlife star Nico Mbarga in one of African music's biggest hits, the classic 10-minute midtempo dance rave "Sweet Mother." Mbarga was the most successful translator of West African horn-driven rumba to a guitar band.
	www.notz.com /african_highlife.htm (821 words)

	Highlife Ensemble \| College of Music \| University of Colorado at Boulder
		Performing high energy, tightly knit traditional, neo-traditional, and highlife dance music from Ghana, CU’s Highlife Ensemble has audiences dancing in the aisles to its irresistible West African rhythms.
		Under the direction of Kwasi Ampene, the group includes thirty music and non-music majors from the Boulder campus.
		It is the first university ensemble in the US to perform highlife music.
	www.colorado.edu /music/events/highlife.html (131 words)

	A Center for the Arts Event!
		A tribute to the highlife and "palm-wine" bands of Ghana and Nigeria, the hits that motivated the feet of a generation of African youth." - j.
		The West African Highlife Band is an authentic all-star group of West African music veterans.
		Deeply rooted in traditional village music, as a youth he was bassist for several great highlife bands, including that of the highlife master, Victor Olaiya.
	www.thecenterforthearts.org /events/05-10-29-highlifeband.htm (414 words)

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