highlifes

Noun

highlife (countable and uncountable, plural highlifes)

1. (uncountable) A genre of music that originated in Ghana in the early 20th century, blending elements of traditional Akan music with Western instruments and ideas.
   • Anwar took the broom away from the Congolese cleaner – whose name I did not know, whose name no one ever thought to ask – and made her dance with him, to some highlife he had going on the transistor radio he carried everywhere.2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 326
2. (countable) A work or performance in this style.
   • Then he left the stage and listened to us playing highlifes.1985, John Collins, African Pop Roots: The Inside Rhythms of Africa, →ISBN, page 76

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