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Art/Literary - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings / highlife music | | Dutch term or phrase: gebruikt als uithangbord | The Fanti are a people in Ghana.
Highlife is een populair genre in Ghana en Winneba is één van de Fanti–havens waar de highlife is ontstaan rond 1920. Het werd gebruikt als uithangbord van de party’s van de Europese aristocratie in Ghana. We onderscheiden twee types van highlife gedurende deze periode:
1) professionele dansensembles speelden tijdens party’s van de elite,
2) de niet-professionele gitarist speelde “palmwijn”-muziek voor de gewone burger.
Any suggestions for "uithangbord" in this context? |
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| | advertise | Explanation:
"Advertise" - as a possible solution:
...it was used to advertise the party's held / thrown / organised, etc. by the European aristocracy in Ghana...
Or "advertisement".
Although, wikipedia uses "describe":
"Early split: guitar-bands and dance highlife
The word highlife comes from the 1920s, when it was used to describe parties held by the European upper-class to which the locals aspired. There were two types of highlife at the time. Dance orchestras played at the parties of the elite, while poor, rural guitarists played a kind of often-scorned music that was also called palm wine music (the term palm wine has referred to multiple styles from West Africa, but is now more commonly associated with the popular music of Sierra Leone). Originally associated with the Fante people, the guitar-based highlife spread across the country (and, to a lesser degree, abroad)."
ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Ghana |
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Adam Smith
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:28
| Grading comment Thanks, Adam. Wikipedia article made life a bit easier!
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12 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +3 advertise
Explanation:
"Advertise" - as a possible solution:
...it was used to advertise the party's held / thrown / organised, etc. by the European aristocracy in Ghana...
Or "advertisement".
Although, wikipedia uses "describe":
"Early split: guitar-bands and dance highlife
The word highlife comes from the 1920s, when it was used to describe parties held by the European upper-class to which the locals aspired. There were two types of highlife at the time. Dance orchestras played at the parties of the elite, while poor, rural guitarists played a kind of often-scorned music that was also called palm wine music (the term palm wine has referred to multiple styles from West Africa, but is now more commonly associated with the popular music of Sierra Leone). Originally associated with the Fante people, the guitar-based highlife spread across the country (and, to a lesser degree, abroad)."
ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Ghana
| Adam Smith
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:28
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 8
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| | Grading comment | Thanks, Adam. Wikipedia article made life a bit easier! |
| Notes to answerer
Asker: Sounds like the author translated part of the Wikipedia article! Even the last sentence, which I didn't bother quoting.
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