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Living the hiplife : celebrity and entrepreneurship in Ghanaian popular music / Jesse Weaver Shipley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shipley, Jesse Weaver.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham and London : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Rockstone's office : entrepreneurship and the debt of celebrity.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822395904
- 0822395908
- 9781283953849
- 1283953846
- OCLC:
- 824824472
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