Hip hop Africa
Subtitle: new African music in a globalizing world
By: edited by Eric Charry
Series: African expressive cultures; African expressive cultures
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bloomington; Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780253003072; 9780253005755; 9780253005823
Subjects: Rap (Music); Music and youth; Popular music; Hip hop; Music and globalization; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes discography, videography, and webography.
Table of contents: title: A capsule history of African rap \ Eric Charry; title: Rap stories (Ghana and South Africa). The birth of Ghanaian hiplife : urban style, black thought, proverbial speech \ Jesse Weaver Shipley ; A genre coming of age : transformation, difference, and authenticity in the rap music and hip hop culture of South Africa \ Lee Watkins; title: Griots and messengers (Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, and Malawi). The rapper as modern griot : reclaiming ancient traditions \ Patricia Tang ; Promises of the chameleon : reggae artist Tiken Jah Fakoly's intertextual contestation of power in Côte d'Ivoire \ Daniel B. Reed ; Style, message, and meaning in Malawian youth rap and ragga performances \ John Fenn; title: Identity and hybridity (Mali and Nigeria). Mapping cosmopolitan identities : rap music and male youth culture in Mali \ Dorothea E. Schulz ; Nigerian hip hop : exploring a black world hybrid \ Stephanie Shonekan; title: East coast (Kenya and Tanzania). The local and global in Kenyan rap and hip hop culture \ Jean Ngoya Kidula ; Imitation and innovation in the music, dress, and camps of Tanzanian youth \ Alex Perullo; title: Popular music panoramas (Ghana and Malawi). Contemporary Ghanaian popular music since the 1980s \ John Collins ; Popular music and young male audiences in contemporary Malawi \ Jochen Seebode; title: Drumming (Mali). Urban drumming : traditional jembe celebration music in a west African city (Bamako) \ Rainer Polak; title: Music for an African twenty-first century \ Eric Charry.