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.

Kwasi Ampene, University of Michigan, author of Female Song Tradition and the Akan of Ghana: The Creative Process in Nnwonkoro

Dr. Amoah-Ramey’s multi-disciplinary research has unraveled the enormous contributions of female Ghanaian Highlife music performers. Not only does the book give the historical and cultural overview of women’s contribution to Ghanaian Highlife music performers, it also gives up-to-date insights of the new music genres they perform in Ghana today.

Habib Iddrisu, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and Dance, University of Oregon