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The Performing Arts in Africa: Ghanaian Perspectives
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From Britain to Bokoor: The Ghanaian Musical Journey of John Collins
Highlife, a popular West African genre, is easily the soundtrack to the life journey of the nation Ghana. And if there is one personality who has contributed the most to documenting it, it is Professor John Collins, a naturalized Ghanaian of British descent and a professor of music at the University of Ghana, Legon. Collins originally accompanied his parents to Ghana in 1952, when his father was setting up the philosophy department at the University of Ghana. Returning to Britain with his mother, Collins was educated in Bristol, Manchester and London, earning a science degree. He was also playing music and then he returned to Ghana in 1969 to study archaeology and sociology at the University of Ghana.
Eventually he himself became an academic teaching and researching popular music. This book captures the life and music career of Collins. What makes him an enigma is his personal involvement on the road as a guitar playing member of concert party bands. His working relations with Fela, E.T. Mensah, Kofi Ghanaba, Victor Uwaifo, Prof. J. H. Kwabena Nketia and many legendary names in the music space of West Africa make him a legend in his own right. This is the story of a “white man” man who came to Africa to legitimize the place of highlife as consequential to world music
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A Guide for the Preparation of Primary School African Music Teaching Manuals
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The Creative Potential of African Art Music in Ghana: A Personal Testimony (Companion Booklet to ICAMD CD Recordings)
This booklet on the Creative Potential of African Music in Ghana: A Personal Testimony is dedicated to the memory of Professor Albert Mawere Opoku for his unique contribution to Dance Theatre in Ghana, his close collaboration with colleagues in artistic research projects, and his enthusiastic and encouraging interest in the creative work of artists in cognate fields. Nothing would have pleased him more than to be part of the launch of the four volumes of CD recordings of a selection of my musical works, for he was always making cassette dubbings of my music for his friends. I believe that this Companion Booklet will be of interest not only to his circle of friends but also to other music lovers, students and the general public.
With this readership in mind, the scope of the booklet has been limited to a few personal observations. It does not tell the complete story of African Art Music in Ghana or Africa in general, something I hope our younger scholars will work on as scores and other sources of data become available. It is simply the story of an individual composer and his works, his reflections and comments on his experience as an African composer, which he presents in conjunction with the CD recordings of his works as testimonies of the creative potential of African art music. For a fuller and more objective account of my life and work, I would like to refer readers to Eric Akrofi: Sharing Knowledge and Experience: A Profile of J. H. Kwabena Nketia (Afram Publications 2003) and Akin Euba: Creative Musicology: A Study of J. H. Kwabena Nketia, Centre for Intercultural Studies, Berkeley.
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Asempa Hymns: Children’s Edition (Hardcover)
Asempa is the Twi word meaning “Good News”. Here is an English language hymn book with a difference. It not only includes 200 of the most popular British, German and American hymns, but it also brings together a similar number of compositions from Africa, Asia, and the rest of the world.
Produced in Ghana, Asempa Hymns contains some 90 items from that country including 28 “Ghana spirituals” traditionally sung by the Pentecostals but now gaining popularity in all churches. In many of these, there is a distinctive Ghanaian flavour, which this book and the companion music collection Ghana Praise make available for the first time to Christians in other lands.
The Western tradition of hymnody has served Africa well for many years, but the rich traditions of other countries have failed to spread, held up by barriers of language, denomination and communication. The appearance of Asempa Hymns, with its wide choice of hymns, from nearly all the continents, will help brothers and sisters in Christ in many lands to realise a new fellowship in song and will shorten the distances that divide us.
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Highlife Time 3
Highlife is Ghana’s most important modern home grown dance-music that has its roots in traditional music infused with outside influences coming from Europe and the Americas. Although the word ‘highlife’ was not coined until the 1920s, its origins can be traced back to the regimental brass bands, elite-dance orchestras and maritime guitar and accordion groups of the late 19th and very early 20th centuries. Highlife is, therefore, one of Africa’s earliest popular music genres.
The book traces the origins of highlife music to the present – and include information on palmwine music, adaha brass bands, concert party guitar bands and dance bands, right up to off-shoots such as Afro-rock, Afrobeat, burger highlife, gospel highlife, hiphop highlife (i.e. hiplife) and contemporary highlife.
The book also includes chapters on the traditional background or roots of highlife, the entrance of women into the Ghanaian highlife profession and the biographies of numerous Ghanaian (and some Nigerian) highlife musicians, composers and producers. It also touches on the way highlife played a role in Ghana’s independence struggle and the country’s quest for a national – and indeed Pan-African – identity.The book also provides information on music styles that are related to highlife, or can be treated as cousins of highlife, such as the maringa of Sierra Leone, the early guitar styles of Liberia, the juju music of Nigeria the makossa of the Cameroon/ It also touches on the popular music of Ghana’s Francophone neighbours.
There is also a section on the Black Diasporic input into highlife, through to the impact of African American and Caribbean popular music styles like calypsos, jazz, soul, reggae, disco, hiphop and rap and dancehall. that have been integrated into the highlife fold. Thus, highlife has not only influenced other African countries but is also an important cultural bridge uniting the peoples of Africa and its Diaspora.
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God is Able
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Ace writes music and plays several instruments but calls himself “just a sporadic songwriter and music hobbyist.” He is an Associate of the pioneering, contemporary gospel music group, Joyful Way Inc. and served as its Director of Music & Productions for several years, having a hand in every album produced by the group since 1991.
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Hosanna Live
Tracks in this album:
1. Hosanna
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4. Mobo Wo Dzin Ft Uncle Ato
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7. Jesus M’agyenkwa Ft Esther Godwyll
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Tu Wo Ho Fo – Audio CD
Tracks in this album:
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Ghana Praise: Tunes from Ghana, Africa and the World
African churches have inherited a rich tradition of hymnody from the West, but for too long the musical heritage of Asia and even of Africa itself has been neglected. Ghana Praise is a first step towards correcting this situation.
It contains 144 tunes by Ghanaian composers: 4 songs from Northern Ghana and 28 spirituals from Ghana’s Pentecostal churches. For the first time, the wealth of music by present and past generations of Ghanaian musicians is available in print for all to use; the geographical and denominational barriers which have discouraged the spread of hymn tunes in the past are breaking down.
In addition, Ghana Praise brings you 19 tunes from the rest of Africa and 33 from other parts of the world.
Ghana Praise is accompanied by a words book, Asempa Hymns, which contains words to fit the new tunes, as well as a selection of the most well-known Western hymns.
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Highlife Time 3
Highlife is Ghana’s most important modern home grown dance-music that has its roots in traditional music infused with outside influences coming from Europe and the Americas. Although the word ‘highlife’ was not coined until the 1920s, its origins can be traced back to the regimental brass bands, elite-dance orchestras and maritime guitar and accordion groups of the late 19th and very early 20th centuries. Highlife is, therefore, one of Africa’s earliest popular music genres.
The book traces the origins of highlife music to the present – and include information on palmwine music, adaha brass bands, concert party guitar bands and dance bands, right up to off-shoots such as Afro-rock, Afrobeat, burger highlife, gospel highlife, hiphop highlife (i.e. hiplife) and contemporary highlife.
The book also includes chapters on the traditional background or roots of highlife, the entrance of women into the Ghanaian highlife profession and the biographies of numerous Ghanaian (and some Nigerian) highlife musicians, composers and producers. It also touches on the way highlife played a role in Ghana’s independence struggle and the country’s quest for a national – and indeed Pan-African – identity.The book also provides information on music styles that are related to highlife, or can be treated as cousins of highlife, such as the maringa of Sierra Leone, the early guitar styles of Liberia, the juju music of Nigeria the makossa of the Cameroon/ It also touches on the popular music of Ghana’s Francophone neighbours.
There is also a section on the Black Diasporic input into highlife, through to the impact of African American and Caribbean popular music styles like calypsos, jazz, soul, reggae, disco, hiphop and rap and dancehall. that have been integrated into the highlife fold. Thus, highlife has not only influenced other African countries but is also an important cultural bridge uniting the peoples of Africa and its Diaspora.
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God is Able
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- Ma Jie Oyi [I’ll Praise you]
- God Is Able ft. Curtis Quarcoo, Luigi Maclean
- Franco Jam ft. Musell Mensah
- Glorious in Majesty ft. Esther Godwyll
- No Rock like Our God
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- None Like You
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My Yadah – Flavours of 50 – Ace Anan Ankomah
Ace writes music and plays several instruments but calls himself “just a sporadic songwriter and music hobbyist.” He is an Associate of the pioneering, contemporary gospel music group, Joyful Way Inc. and served as its Director of Music & Productions for several years, having a hand in every album produced by the group since 1991.
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Hosanna Live
Tracks in this album:
1. Hosanna
2. Ebube
3. Mensi den Intro Ft Charlotte Acquah
4. Mobo Wo Dzin Ft Uncle Ato
5. Ka Kyere Jesus
6. Yesu Nyame ba Ft Eugene Zuta / George Sekyi
7. Jesus M’agyenkwa Ft Esther Godwyll
8. Hymn Medley Ft Uncle Ato
9. Kristofo Ft Eugene Degadzor
10. The Name Jesus Ft Dulcie Yates / Felicia Crentsil
11. Jesus Jesus Ft David Crentsil / Charles Pettingle
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Tu Wo Ho Fo – Audio CD
Tracks in this album:
1. Yen ara Y’asaase
2. Gyato
3. Mr. Traveller
4. Tu wo ho fo (Immediate Effect)
5. Aduane Nyinya
6. Palm Wine Love
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Ghana Praise: Tunes from Ghana, Africa and the World
African churches have inherited a rich tradition of hymnody from the West, but for too long the musical heritage of Asia and even of Africa itself has been neglected. Ghana Praise is a first step towards correcting this situation.
It contains 144 tunes by Ghanaian composers: 4 songs from Northern Ghana and 28 spirituals from Ghana’s Pentecostal churches. For the first time, the wealth of music by present and past generations of Ghanaian musicians is available in print for all to use; the geographical and denominational barriers which have discouraged the spread of hymn tunes in the past are breaking down.
In addition, Ghana Praise brings you 19 tunes from the rest of Africa and 33 from other parts of the world.
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Joyful Way Incorporated: Golden Jubilee Anthology (Audio CD, 3 CDs in a pack)
Tracks
CD 1
- JUBILEE PRAISE JAM – ASEDA AKYI [Prince Anderson & Kate Hammond, 2016] | ODI YƐN ANIM [Ace Anan Ankomah, 2022 & Linda Boateng, 2010] | WƆKƐ JƆƆMƆ [Kate Hammond, 2018] | MEYI EWURADZE AYƐW [Daniel Grant & Ace Anan Ankomah, 2022] | WOSO NA WOKRƆN [Faustina Amponsah, 2001]
- OSE SORONKO – OSEE YIE AYEE [Ace Anan Ankomah & Kwabena Adjei-Seffah, 1999; JWI Music Directorate, 2020] | YESU ANAA [Ace Anan Ankomah & Kwabena Adjei-Seffah, 1999] | YESU OSE [Traditional chant] | NTONTON NKA EWURADZE [Betty Dzokoto, 1978] | WONYI AWURADZE AYƐW [Betty Dzokoto, 1978] | YƐ WƆ GYEFO BI [Samuel Ewool, 1999] | YIW YESU YE [Rev Dr Samuel Kisseadoo, 1977] | OSEE YIE AYEE [reprise]
- BƐGYE W’AYEYI [Sackey Bennin, 1991] | ƆSABARIMA [Sackey Bennin, 1992]
- WƆNJIE OYI [TVO Lamptey, 1986] | OSEE YIE [Sackey Bennin, 1992] [Wᴐnjie Oyi Rap written by Theophilus Aryee; Osee Yie Rap written by Ace Anan Ankomah]
- ASEDA [Edwin Akyea Asamoah, 1971] | NYAME FATA AYEYI [Wing Commander (Rtd) Samuel Allotey, 1982]
- HYERƐÑ [Rev John Egyir-Croffet, 1984] | DROMƆ [TVO Lamptey, 1987]
- BRA YESU HƆ [Edwin Akyea Asamoah, 1972] | WOAKYINKYIN [Edwin Akyea Asamoah, 1971] | SAN BRA [Edwin Akyea Asamoah, 1972]
- EWURADZE BƐBA [Sackey Bennin, 1983] | WE SHALL BE THERE [Kweku Anafo Frimpong, 1972]
CD 2
- W’AHENNI [Ace Anan Ankomah, 1991] | GUANHWƐFO [Ace Anan Ankomah, 1992]
- NYAME YƐ ƆHEN [Ace Anan Ankomah, 2000] | HALLELUJAH AMEN [Prof Joe-Nat Clegg-Lamptey, 1978]
- JESUS [Patrick Osei-Hwere, 1990]
- BURDENS DOWN [Kweku Anafo Frimpong, 1973] | BREAD OF LIFE [Rev Dr Solomon Aryeetey, 1973]
- NEA ƆDƆ NYAME [Ace Anan Ankomah & Pearl Afenyo, 1997] | ME TWƐN YEHOWA [Ace Anan Ankomah & Josephine Anan-Ankomah, 2015] | BARIMA YESU [Ace Anan Ankomah & Solomon Ocquaye, 2003]
- WOSƐ AYEYI [Faustina Amponsah, 2004] | YEHOWA JI MI LA [Patience Attram-Danso & Geoff Anno, 2004] | DΕN NA ƐBΕTWE (coda) [Kweku Anafo Frimpong, 1972]
- NEVER GIVE UP [Justice Akushie, 1983] | I’VE FOUND IT [Justice Akushie, 1981] [Rap written by Ace Anan Ankomah & Daniel Grant]
- SUPER MAN JESUS [Rev Dr Solomon Aryeetey, 1974] | MAN OF CALVARY [Rev Dr Solomon Aryeetey, 1973] | COME TO JESUS [Kweku Anafo Frimpong, 1971] [Rap written by Ace Anan Ankomah & Daniel Grant]
CD 3
- JESUS THANK YOU [TVO Lamptey, 1977] | JESUS CHRIST OF CALVARY [Dantewa Donkor, 1971]
- THRU’ THE YEARS [Sackey Bennin, 1987] | HELP (coda) [Prof Joe-Nat Clegg-Lamptey, 1981]
- JESUS FOR YOU (Altar Call) [Rt Rev Prof Emmanuel Lartey, 1971]
- I’VE FOUND IT [Justice Akushie, 1981] | NEVER GIVE UP [Justice Akushie, 1983] (Future) [Rap written by Daniel Grant]
- JESUS FOR YOU [Rt Rev Prof Emmanuel Lartey, 1971] | ANWANWA DƆ [Betty Dzokoto, 1990] | NYAME YƐ ƆDƆ [Edwin Akyea Asamoah, 1974] | BRA YESU HƆ [Edwin Akyea Asamoah, 1972] (Jazzed Up)
- W’AHENNI | GUANHWƐFO (Saxophone & Guitar Reprise)
- NYAME YƐ ƆHEN (Saxophone & Guitar Reprise)
- I’VE FOUND IT (Piano Reprise)
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Akpe (Bethel Revival Choir)
Tracks in this album:
- Malorwo (I’ll love you)
- Fix It (Featuring Calvis Hammond & Pastor Eliot Lamptey)
- Yesu Akpe
- Ensuro (Fear Not)
- Agbadza Gospel Medley
- Yedawase
- Mawu ana
- Wodekako (Only You)
- Selah (The Lord’s Prayer)
- Ewe Hymn Medley
- Mawugbagbe/Halleluyah (Featuring Joe Mettle)
- Mawu Akpenawo (Featuring Eugene Zuta)
- Akpe
- Ava fia Kristo/Yehowa
- Ewe Praise Medley (Featuring Joe Mettle)
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From Britain to Bokoor: The Ghanaian Musical Journey of John Collins
Highlife, a popular West African genre, is easily the soundtrack to the life journey of the nation Ghana. And if there is one personality who has contributed the most to documenting it, it is Professor John Collins, a naturalized Ghanaian of British descent and a professor of music at the University of Ghana, Legon. Collins originally accompanied his parents to Ghana in 1952, when his father was setting up the philosophy department at the University of Ghana. Returning to Britain with his mother, Collins was educated in Bristol, Manchester and London, earning a science degree. He was also playing music and then he returned to Ghana in 1969 to study archaeology and sociology at the University of Ghana.
Eventually he himself became an academic teaching and researching popular music. This book captures the life and music career of Collins. What makes him an enigma is his personal involvement on the road as a guitar playing member of concert party bands. His working relations with Fela, E.T. Mensah, Kofi Ghanaba, Victor Uwaifo, Prof. J. H. Kwabena Nketia and many legendary names in the music space of West Africa make him a legend in his own right. This is the story of a “white man” man who came to Africa to legitimize the place of highlife as consequential to world music
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Enyo – Bethel Revival Choir (Audio CD)
Tracks in this album:
1. Tegbe Tegbe (Forever) Ft Ps Edwin Dadson
2. Ewe Praise Medley 2 (Teteyi) Ft Joe Mettle & Chief Prosper
3. Agbadza Gospel Medley 3 (Va Dem Kaba)
4. Enyo (He is Good) (Live Version) Ft Joe Mettle
5. Mida Akpe (Give Thanks) Ft Dave Da Music Box & Mawutor Tettey
6. Xorla (Savior) Ft Ps Helen Yawson
7. Nyemaku o (I will not die) Ft Ps Isaiah Fosu-Kwakye & Osborn Agbodovi
8. Trusting (Do nu ɖe nu) Ft Ps Jennifer Kofi
9. Kpe Gbadza (Solid Rock) – Ft Ps Jennifer Kofi
10. Enyo Spontaneous Worship Ft Joe Mettle
11. Power Medley (Nukunu Mawu)
12. Ewe Bongo Worship Ft Akesse Brempong₵10.00 -
A Complete Course in Senior High School Oral English (with Audio CD)
This material shows teachers and students how to recognise and produce the sounds of the English Language with specific attention to sounds that are problematic for speakers of English in West Africa. The exercises at the end of each level accompanied by some suggested answers helps students to self-evaluate their understanding.
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Audience of One – Audio CD
Tracks in this album:
1. Prayer
2. Worthy One
3. Judah Dzata (Lion of Judah)
4. Audience of One (God is Here)
5. Shiwoonɔyeli Nyɔŋmo (Fɛɛ Mli)
6. Wait
7. Kosie Ansa
8. Brɛbrɛ
9. Mindaoshi (My Jubilee Song)Also includes Image cards of all the lyrics.
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Asempa Hymns (Words)
Asempa is the Twi word meaning “Good News”. Here is an English language hymn book with a difference. It not only includes 200 of the most popular British, German and American hymns, but it also brings together a similar number of compositions from Africa, Asia, and the rest of the world.
Produced in Ghana, Asempa Hymns contains some 90 items from that country including 28 “Ghana spirituals” traditionally sung by the Pentecostals but now gaining popularity in all churches. In many of these, there is a distinctive Ghanaian flavour, which this book and the companion music collection Ghana Praise make available for the first time to Christians in other lands.
The Western tradition of hymnody has served Africa well for many years, but the rich traditions of other countries have failed to spread, held up by barriers of language, denomination and communication. The appearance of Asempa Hymns, with its wide choice of hymns, from nearly all the continents, will help brothers and sisters in Christ in many lands to realise a new fellowship in song and will shorten the distances that divide us.
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Hymns Unlimited
Hymn Unlimited track list:
1. Benedicite, Omnia Opera
2. Anwanwa Do (Come Let Us All Unite)
3. Anwanwa Do (Come Let Us Sing)
4. Anwanwa Do (And Can It Be)
5. Sing We the King
6. Adoremus (All Creatures of Our God and King)
7Adoremus (O Worship the King)
8. Adoremus (Praise to the Lord)
9. Adoremus (When Morning Gilds the Sky)
10. Adoremus (Saviour, Blessed Saviour)
11. Adoremus (Fairest Lord Jesus) [feat. Eyra Tamakloe]
12. Adoremus (Crown Him with Many Crowns)
13. Ko-Yi-Ko-Ko (O Thou Who Camest from Above)
14. Malaika (Hark, Hark My Soul) [feat. Dieu Donnee Anyekase]
15. Cathedral (A Safe Stronghold)
16. Cathedral (Jesus Shall Reign)
17. Cathedral (Be Thou My Vision)
18. Cathedral (Begone Unbelief)
19. Cathedral (Jesus of Nazareth Passeth By)
20. Happy Man
21. Altar Call (Come Sinners to the Gospel Feast)
22. Altar Call (Hark My Soul)
23. Altar Call (My Faith Looks up to Thee)
₵10.00Hymns Unlimited
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Methodist Hymn Book – Normal Edition (Wine or White Covers, Hardcover)
Methodist Hymn Book – Normal Edition (Wine or White Covers)
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