The most well-known form of
Ghanaian music is
highlife, which has become popular all across
Africa and much of the rest of the world. Highlife arose among the coastal regions of Ghana and, to a lesser extent
Sierra Leone,
Liberia,
Nigeria and other
English-speaking
West African colonies. In the
1920s, the word was coined to desribe the
dancing of the
English colonials to the regimented music of native bands. Eventually, the music, originally used only for military functions, began using native songs and
kpanlogo[?] rhythms.
Highlife has since diversified into related forms, including mixtures of highlife and reggae (reggae highlife[?]), hip hop (hiplife[?]), as well as burger highlife[?] (from the Ghanaian immigrant community in Germany) and highlife fusion[?].
See also: Ghanaian hip hop