1 option
Living the hiplife : celebrity and entrepreneurship in Ghanaian popular music / Jesse Weaver Shipley.
LIBRA ML3503.G4 S55 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shipley, Jesse Weaver.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rap (Music)--Ghana--History and criticism.
- Rap (Music).
- Rap musicians--Ghana.
- Rap musicians.
- Popular music--Ghana--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Hip-hop--Ghana.
- Hip-hop.
- Ghana.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 329 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- Hiplife is a popular music genre in Ghana that mixes hip-hop beatmaking and rap with highlife music, proverbial speech, and Akan storytelling. In the 1990s, young Ghanaian musicians were drawn to hip-hop's dual ethos of black masculine empowerment and capitalist success. They made their underground sound mainstream by infusing carefree bravado with traditional respectful oratory and familiar Ghanaian rhythms. Living the Hiplife is an ethnographic account of hiplife in Ghana and its diaspora, based on extensive research among artists and audiences in Accra, Ghana's capital city; New York; and London. Jesse Weaver Shipley examines the production, consumption, and circulation of hiplife music, culture, and fashion in relation to broader cultural and political shifts in neoliberalizing Ghana. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Soul to soul : value transformations and disjunctures of diaspora in urban Ghana
- Hip-hop comes to Ghana : state privatization and an aesthetic 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
- No. 1 mango street : celebrity labor and digital production as musical value
- Ghana@50 in the Bronx : sonic nationalism and new diasporic disjunctures.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-316) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822353522
- 0822353520
- 9780822353669
- 0822353660
- OCLC:
- 798613302
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.