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High Life in West Africa

POAAAM/3/1/6/2/5 | Paul Oliver Archive of African American Music.Audio and video material.Reel tape recordings.African music.Radio programmes and record dubs. | Duration: 2:11:28 Compilation of off-air recordings of two BBC radio programmes about African pop music and a dub of a 1961 recording of American blues pianist Barrelhouse Buck McFarland (left over from previous tape use). Side 1: [0:00:04] John Storm Roberts - High Life: Pop Music of Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone (originally broadcast on BBC Radio 3, 18 Jan 1969): first of two programmes on African pop music, looking at the popular …