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Palm-wine music

genre · 1900–

Also called palmwine, maringa, palm wine guitar

Coastal West African guitar song of dock bars and palm-wine shops: two-finger pluck, light percussion, and a Kru-to-Akan guitar school (Jacob Sam, later Rogie and Koo Nimo). Empty Received is checked: the Kru guitar school is this node’s origin, not a parent; calypso stays a leftover Atlantic claim, not a node. The hop into Highlife is that guitar language in a dance band; Jùjú hears the same pluck. Empty extra Given is historically checked.

Listen

  1. Yaa Amponsah Jacob Sam / Kumasi Trio (1928) YouTube
  2. My Lovely Elizabeth S.E. Rogie (1962) YouTube · Spotify
  3. Aki Special S.E. Rogie (1989)
  4. Odonson Koo Nimo (1990) Amazon
  5. Fire, Fire Ebenezer Calendar (1952) YouTube

Passed on

Highlife genre · 1920–

Highlife keeps palm-wine’s two-finger guitar cycle and puts it in a horn-and-kit dance band.

Influence
Jùjú genre · 1930–

Early jùjú keeps Yoruba praise and takes palm-wine’s two-finger guitar.

Influence

Palm-wine music → Highlife

instrumentationphrase and lickmeter and groovestrength: highscholarly consensus1920–1955oralrecording

Mechanism

Highlife keeps palm-wine’s two-finger guitar cycle and puts it in a horn-and-kit dance band. Strength high. Jazz hops sit on the sibling file.

Evidence

Kumasi Trio / Yaa Amponsah into Mensah-era dance bands; Grove on that guitar parent.

Debate

Whether early guitar records are already highlife. The small-group guitar school is palm-wine; the dance-band job is the child.

Mediators

artist: Jacob Sam

Palm-wine music → Jùjú

instrumentationphrase and lickmeter and groovestrength: mediumwell documented1930–1962oralrecording

Mechanism

Early jùjú keeps Yoruba praise and takes palm-wine’s two-finger guitar. Strength medium. The later electric-band hop sits on highlife juju.

Evidence

1930s Lagos guitar jùjú against the coastal guitar school; Grove on that meeting.

Debate

Whether Tunde King is already highlife. The small guitar group is palm-wine; the Yoruba praise job is jùjú.

Mediators

artist: Tunde King