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| Title: | Ghanaian Women Enter into Popular Entertainment |
| Author: | Collins, John |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Periodical: | Humanities Review Journal |
| Volume: | 3 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 1-10 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Ghana |
| Subjects: | women writers popular music Labor and Employment Women's Issues Architecture and the Arts Development and Technology Politics and Government Religion and Witchcraft arts Cultural Roles Sex Roles |
| Abstract: | This article discusses the problems faced by West African and particularly Ghanaian female popular performers and the various factors that have, since the 1960s, led to increasing numbers of women entering the professional theatre and the commercial entertainment industry. Until recently, women were not allowed to join concert parties and highlife groups in Ghana. Four major influences in particular have contributed to the upsurge of female popular artists since the 1960s: the impact of black and white foreign stars, the effect of postindependence government policies, aspects of the traditional ethos that have helped rather than hindered women, and the importance of the churches as an avenue for musical women. Bibliogr. [ASC Leiden abstract] |