Abstract

The National Symphony Orchestra was established some 50 years ago asone of several institutions to spearhead an African cultural renaissance agenda in Ghana. Of the several institutions established the orchestra was criticised the most, ostensibly for its paradoxical status as a foreign ensemble. In this article we recount the history of the national orchestraand argue that, like other indigenized colonial institutions, the debate over its cultural relevance or otherwise should focus on the use(s) to which that ensemble is put in the Ghanaian context rather than on its history of origin and instrumentation.RésuméCréé il y une cinquantaines d’années, l’orchestre symphonique nationale du Ghana était destiné, à l’instar de plusieurs autres institutions, à servirde fer de lance pour la renaissance culturelle africaine au Ghana. L’orchestre était le plus critiqué parmi toutes les institutions créées apparemment en raison de son statut paradoxal d’ensemble étranger. Ils’agit, dans cet article, de parcourir l’histoire de l’orchestre national et de faire valoir notre argument selon lequel le débat par rapport à sa pertinence culturelle, comme celle des autres institutions coloniales « indigénisées » devrait centrer sur l’usage dont est fait l’ensemble dansle contexte ghanéen plutôt que sur l’histoire de son origine et de soninstrumentation.

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