Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ETHNOMUSICOLOGY MULTIMEDIA SERIES PREFACE -- Introduction: The Historical Importance of Urban Ghana's Saturday Nights -- 1 Popular Music, Political Authority, and Social Possibilities in the Southern Gold Coast, 1890-1940 -- 2 The Making of a Middle Class: Urban Social Clubs and the Evolution of Highlife Music, 1915-1940 -- 3 The Friction on the Floor: Negotiating Nightlife in Accra, 1940-1960 -- 4 "The Highlife Was Born in Ghana": Politics, Culture, and the Making of a National Music, 1950-1965 -- 5 "We Were the Ones Who Composed the Songs": The Promises and Pitfalls of Being a Bandsman, 1945-1970 -- Epilogue -- GLOSSARY -- NOTES -- DISCOGRAPHY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.