Image Number: APN314804
Title: Ghana Goes Hip-Life
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Isaac Kpelle
Description: Professor John Collins playing a guitar in his High-Life music Institute studio in Accra , the capital city of Ghana on May 11, 2010. John Collins came to Ghana in the 1950ââ¬â¢s and has been active in the Ghanaian music scene since the late 1960ââ¬â¢s. He is currently a Professor at the Music Department of the University of Ghana at Legon, Chair of the BAPMAF Highlife-Music Institute in Accra and co-leader of the Local Dimension palmwine highlife band.The most well known genre to have originated in Ghana is highlife music. Highlife originated in Ghana in the 1990s and spread to Sierra Leone, Nigeria and other West African countries by 1920. It is characterized by jazzy horns and multiple guitars which lead the band.Over the past few years, a new form of Ghanaââ¬â¢s high-life music has been developed by young Ghanaian musicians and it has taken the country by storm. This music form which they call hip-life is the youth answer to the rap music in the US.
Collections: Independent Photographers
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Isaac Kpelle
Country: Ghana
Location: Accra
Orientation: panoramic
Pixel Size: 1920 x 1080
Media Id: 11_10610
Credit: Isaac Kpelle / Africa Media Online
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