Female Highlife Performers in Ghana is a significant contribution to the scholarly study of female agency, resistance, empowerment, and liberation. Focusing on brave and remarkable women who blazed the trail from the 1960s to the current crop of female artists in the challenging landscape of the male-dominated music industry, Nana Amoah-Ramey weaves a tapestry of biographical narratives, song texts, and ethnographic descriptions onto the fabric of Ghana’s socio-economic and political aspirations and nationhood. It is a must-read text that will animate discussions among students and scholars of African music as well as the general public.
