A German Anthropologist, Dr Markus Coester, has stressed the need for more research into highlife music of the past.
He stated these in an interview with “The Spectator” last week.

Dr. Coester is currently in the country to research into high life music and popular culture in the 1950’s and 1960’s in Ghana, Nigeria and United Kingdom.

He is also to look at how things were related and what role music played.

He said it is through research that, there can be better understanding and formation of culture. It would also give exposure to musicians and instrumentalists who were good but are now unknown.

It will provide new insights into the music and its social and economic and other contexts.

“It gives us a kind of legacy from digging old recordings to become part of teaching and scholarly works. It will also benefit the next generation”, he said.

Dr. Coester said his study will shed light on the formation of modern West African music culture in a transnational always, as it relates musical developments particularly in Ghana and Nigeria to development in the African Diaspora in the UK.