Living the Hiplife : Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music /

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This ethnography of hiplife, a popular Ghanaian music genre combining hip-hop with highlife music, shows how young hiplife artists in Ghana and its diaspora use the music to gain social status, wealth, and respectability.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Shipley, Jesse Weaver (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham and London : Duke University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Rap musicians.
Rap (Music)
Popular music.
Hip-hop.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Pop Vocal.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > New Age.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > International.
Hip-hop > Ghāna.
Musique populaire > Ghāna > Histoire et critique.
Rappeurs > Ghāna.
Hip-hop > Ghana.
Popular music > Ghana > History and criticism.
Rap musicians > Ghana.
Rap (Music) > Ghana > History and criticism.
Ghana.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: aesthetics and aspiration
  • Soul to soul : value transformations and disjunctures of diaspora in urban Ghana
  • Hip-hop comes to Ghana : state privatization and an aesthetics of control
  • Re-birth of hip : Afro-cosmopolitanism and masculinity in Accra's new speech community
  • The executioner's words : genre, respect, and linguistic value
  • Scent of bodies : parody as circulation
  • Gendering value for a female hiplife star : moral violence as performance technology
  • Number one Mango Street : celebrity labor and digital production as musical value
  • Ghana@50 in the Bronx : sonic nationalism and new diasporic disjunctures
  • Conclusion : Rockstone's office : entrepreneurship and the debt of celebrity.

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