{"id":176432970,"date":"2014-02-26T23:12:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T05:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176432970"},"modified":"2014-02-26T23:12:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T05:12:09","slug":"video-hilife-ghanas-musical-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2014\/02\/26\/video-hilife-ghanas-musical-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: HiLife: Ghana&#8217;s Musical Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hi_life_thumb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-176432971\" alt=\"hi_life_thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hi_life_thumb.jpg\" width=\"228\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: xx-large;\"><strong>HI LIFE: GHANA&#8217;S MUSICAL SOUL<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"922\" height=\"519\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aAzeMQ3l1q4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">This documentary tells the story of Ghana through its most celebrated musical form, HILIFE. It explores the fascinating history of Hilife, Ghana&#8217;s &#8216;musical soul&#8217; and documents its impact on generations of musicians. The late Kofi Ghanaba recounts his moving encounter with Charlie Parker in Chicago, a week before the latter died. SINGING 4 FREEDOM projects the place Hilife occupies in the cultural history of Africa and the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Brought to you by ReelAfrican (<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/www.reelafrican.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reelafrican.com%2F&amp;session_token=Rw49K4RQlwYARdBBDhiMoi4KsO98MTM5MzU2MTA2M0AxMzkzNDc0NjYz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-redirect-href-updated=\"true\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/www.reelafrican.com<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; HI LIFE: GHANA&#8217;S MUSICAL SOUL This documentary tells the story of Ghana through its most celebrated musical form, HILIFE. It explores the fascinating history of Hilife, Ghana&#8217;s &#8216;musical soul&#8217; and documents its impact on generations of musicians. The late Kofi Ghanaba recounts his moving encounter with Charlie Parker in Chicago, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176432970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176432970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176432970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176432972,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176432970\/revisions\/176432972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176432970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176432970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176432970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}