Adaha

The Adaha was type of highlife that was played on flutes ,fifes and brass band drums which spread across West Africa in the 1930's[1] [2][3]

History


The Adaha was a brand music played in the coastal areas by the Fante people in 1880s.[4]The Adaha music of Fanti coast was the earliest documented,syncopated style of brass band.[5] Europeans and west Indians soldiers taught Africans to read music and to play brass and woodwind instruments.The colonial military brass-bands became adaha highlife.[6]The local African people created their own blend of brass band music from marches,polkas and nineteen century ballads.The Adaha music spread throughout the villages which made the people adapt to drums and call-and-response singing.It was stationed in Cape Coast and Elmina.[2]

References
  1. Collins, John (1985). Musicmakers of West Africa. Lynne Rienner Publishers. ISBN 978-0-89410-075-8.
  2. "Grooving to Ghana's Highlife Music". Christine Bedenis. 2017-11-17. Retrieved 2020-08-17.
  3. Appiah, Venessa (2020-05-12). "GLOCAL HIGHLIFE". Medium. Retrieved 2020-08-17.
  4. "The story of Ghanaian highlife". 2004-09-28. Retrieved 2020-08-17.
  5. Collins, Edmund John (1987). "Jazz Feedback to Africa". American Music. 5 (2): 176–193. doi:10.2307/3052161. ISSN 0734-4392. JSTOR 3052161.
  6. Collins, John (1989). "The Early History of West African Highlife Music". Popular Music. 8 (3): 221–230. doi:10.1017/S0261143000003524. ISSN 0261-1430. JSTOR 931273.
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