# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Book Launch: Highlife Unbound - Highlife as Trilocal and Transnational Music Culture 1950-1967
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 24 Apr, 2026 at 05:00 pm – Fri, 24 Apr, 2026 at 06:00 pm (+02:00)
- **Event Description**: In his new book, Highlife Unbound (published by Brill 2026), Dr. Markus Coester unfolds the trilocal and transnational history of Highlife, Anglophone West Africa's first modern popular music. It introduces Highlife as a travelling cultural practice and trilocal community by investigating the interrelatedness of Highlife-making in the Gold Coast/Ghana, Nigeria, and England between 1950 and 1967, the time when Highlife became modern popular music culture. It does this through an in-depth focus on travelling musicians, Highlife in three countries, and the circulation and appropriation of recorded music. The African Diaspora contact points of music-makers from the Caribbean and West Africa in England are an important subject of the book as are the music’s forgotten London sites.

Markus Coester, Dr. habil. (Ph.D. 2003, Habilitation, 2015) is a cultural anthropologist and ethnomusicologist at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He is a project director in the Cluster of Excellence Africa Multiple - Reconfiguring African Studies. His work and research have centred on music and culture, mainly Highlife, preservation, digitisation, and recirculation of important music archives and collections, like the Olive Lewin Collection in Jamaica and the GBC Gramophone Library in Ghana.

Link to the book: https://brill.com/display/title/72506

Organizers of event: Centre of African Studies, HUM:Global & IMMART
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/copenhagen/book-launch-highlife-unbound-highlife-as-trilocal-and-transnational-music-culture-1950-1967/200029944337345
- **Event Categories**: music, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 20

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Copenhagen 
- **state**: SK
- **country**: Denmark
- **location**: LiteraturHaus
- **lat**: 55.690801709466
- **long**: 12.555755810334
- **full address**: LiteraturHaus, Møllegade 7,Copenhagen, Copenhagen , Denmark

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Book Launch: Highlife Unbound - Highlife as Trilocal and Transnational Music Culture 1950-1967 being held?
  - **A:** Book Launch: Highlife Unbound - Highlife as Trilocal and Transnational Music Culture 1950-1967 takes place on Fri, 24 Apr, 2026 at 05:00 pm to Fri, 24 Apr, 2026 at 06:00 pm at LiteraturHaus, Møllegade 7,Copenhagen, Copenhagen , Denmark.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Book Launch: Highlife Unbound - Highlife as Trilocal and Transnational Music Culture 1950-1967?
  - **A:** Book Launch: Highlife Unbound - Highlife as Trilocal and Transnational Music Culture 1950-1967 is organized by Centre of African Studies - University of Copenhagen.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Book Launch: Highlife Unbound - Highlife as Trilocal and Transnational Music Culture 1950-1967 is ideal for music lovers, fans of all genres, and anyone who wants to celebrate the power of music - from intimate gigs and live sessions to festivals and cultural performances. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Copenhagen , this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Book Launch: Highlife Unbound - Highlife as Trilocal and Transnational Music Culture 1950-1967 sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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