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Eric Debrah Otchere: Sonic Spaces: A Psychology of Music and Work

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What Are the Early Field Recordings of Fisherman Songs?

There are recordings which are not video recordings that date back to about 1928. We have some of the fisherman songs filtering into other kinds of music we call High Life music. The indigenous language is missed away when instruments such as the harmonica or the guitar were acquired. And so you have the local rhythms and the local melodies being played in a different contest with different instruments. So from these earlier recordings, there are a few of the fisherman song that actually made their way.

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