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

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.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.