An Analysis of Music and Politics: The Ghanaian Instance
Ernest Francis Amparbin & Emmanuel Owusu-Baah
Issue: Vol.4 No.10 Article 11 pp.1289-1296
DOI: https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.202341011 | Published online 30th October, 2023
© 2023 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CCBY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
This piece aimed to analyze the use of music and its related activities in politics, particularly Ghanaian politics to effectively impact the organization of activities in the areas of party formation, rallies and electioneering campaigns. The authors opined that through music, leaders and organizers of political parties are able to better communicate to the public to attract winning sympathy. The authors employed participatory observation and unstructured interviews to gather primary data from five political parties including the two main parties (National Democratic Congress and New Patriotic Party). The findings indicate that music and related performances are instrumental in bringing party members together, attracting new members to fold, and forming formidable parties. The authors recommend that the leadership of political parties should organize and encourage regular musical activities between members and the party as a whole.
Keywords: Political Anthems, Electioneering Campaigns, Political Parties, Party Politics, Music Related Activities.
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Dr. Ernest Francis Amparbin is a Music Educationist and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Cultural and African Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.
Emmanuel Owusu-Baah is a scholar in Political Science with a Bachelor of Arts from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.
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