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.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Shipley, Jesse Weaver (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham and London : Duke University Press, 2013.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Description
Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (351 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780822395904

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