Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal An extravagant or luxurious style of living.
- n. Popular West African dance music that combines African rhythms and Western-style pop melodies.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- high + life (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Paid sex, lies and online videoclips in Bulgarian highlife fill the pages of local media”
“I loved how in Burkina and Mali traditional music was still very much prominent in the peoples music taste .. in Ghana there is a booming "highlife" music industry which is more hip hop / pop sound but I still think nothing can compare to the traditional sound.”
“We were surprised to find the place busy with a live highlife band playing for a private gathering.”
The Huffington Post: J. Branson: You Never Know Who Will You Be Faced With Meeting
“I had never been outside of America before, so I went to research the music industry in Ghana and their transition from highlife to hiplife, which is their version of rap music," he said.”
The Wall Street Journal: African Music Is 'Awesome' To Collector
“He composed, arranged and performed in several leading highlife bands such as the Stargazers and Broadway Dance Band.”
The Huffington Post: Modiba: Love and Death, the New Album from Ghanaian Legend Ebo Taylor
“As the title suggests, it had elements of African highlife, as well as a Sonny Rollins-style calypso.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Sound Way Down in the Underground
“Hearing these eight, nine, ten minute tromps through highlife-fueled funk is a world away from the tasty tidbits of Nigeria Special Volume 2: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Nigerian Blues 1970-6 (Soundway).”
The Huffington Post: Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Afrobeat Beyond and Behind Fela
“You will recognize the music, however, as this collection is filled with the Yoruba rhythms and highlife guitars that inspired the man, or covers by artists he influenced.”
The Huffington Post: Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Afrobeat Beyond and Behind Fela
“But D. C.-based Elikeh, fronted by Togolese singer-guitarist Massama Dogo, is seeking to change that with its mix of Afrofunk, highlife and roots - a style it calls "Afro-high.”
“The former Dresden working-class girl took to the highlife of a concentration camp overseer.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘highlife’.
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MUSIC - jazz
Afro, habanera, pentatonic scale, bop, bebop, jazz, cool jazz, pentatonic, malignment, music genre, jazz musician, syncopate and 437 more...
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Hi, you!
Words that sound like you're saying hi to a person.
hijack, hygiene, heighdy, hi-fi, hijinks, hiyacinth, hymen, highway, hiyalin, highfalutin, highbrow, hilo and 37 more...
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