Living the hiplife
Subtitle: celebrity and entrepreneurship in Ghanaian popular music
By: Jesse Weaver Shipley
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780822353522; 9780822353669
Subjects: Rap (Music); Rap musicians; History and criticism; Popular music; Hip-hop
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-316) and index.
Table of contents: title: Soul to soul : value transformations and disjunctures of diaspora in urban Ghana; title: Hip-hop comes to Ghana : state privatization and an aesthetic of control; title: Re-birth of hip : Afro-cosmopolitanism and masculinity in Accra's new speech community; title: The executioner's words : genre, respect, and linguistic value; title: Scent of bodies : parody as circulation; title: Gendering value for a female hiplife star : moral violence as performance technology; title: No. 1 mango street : celebrity labor and digital production as musical value; title: Ghana@50 in the Bronx : sonic nationalism and new diasporic disjunctures.