Notes:
Highlife Name given to any West African popular music
Primarily an Anglophone music - territories of former British West Africa Sierra Leonne, Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, (French speaking Benin and Togo )
High Life is a synergetic product by which it is a music developed out of local and foreign influences but is greater than the sum of each of those influences.
Roots in Sierra Leone
Indigenous rhythms of osibisaba (Fante), ashiko (Sierra Leone), dagomba (Liberian guitar style). and gombe (from Sierre Leone via Jamaican Maroons | |
European Foxtrots, waltzes and polkas | |
Caribbean kaiso | |
Using European and African Instruments | |
The Army Concert Party | |
Kru-Sailors brought - Harmonica, Button Accordian and Guitar. | |
Fusion of the Old World and the New World. |