Artigo Revisado por pares

The Akan highlife song: a medium of cultural reflection or deflection

1984; Indiana University Press; Volume: 15; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

ISSN

1527-2044

Autores

Kwesi Yankah,

Tópico(s)

African studies and sociopolitical issues

Resumo

This paper is a comment on Sjaak van der Geest's article, Image of Death in Akan Highlife Songs of Ghana (Research in African Literatures, 11 [Summer 1980]), in which some observations were made, by the author, about Akan belief systems and at? titudes to death on the basis of his examination of Akan highlife song texts. The significance of van der Geest's approach and observations lies in the attention he draws to the antithetical re?

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