ABSTRACT Brass band music forms a very important part of the musical culture of the Volta Region of Ghana. As a legacy of the activities from post-colonial Ghana, brass bands generally include European brass and percussion instruments with occasional addition of local drums and other exotic instruments of the tradition as a result of indigenization. The purpose of the study is to investigate the contextual use of brass bands in funerals, festivals and state functions in the Mid-Eweland of the...
ABSTRACT Sarah R. Addison: A Study of Pain Behaviours in Postoperative Patients This study was designed to investigate behaviours which appeared to be related to pain postoperatively of forty patients on the third and fourth day after major abdominal surgery and nurses' responses to such behaviours. The method employed to identify and analyse these behaviours was that of participant observation and of concurrently collecting, coding and analysing data from the empirical situation. Two main ca...