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.
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.
List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Aesthetics and Aspiration 1 1. Soul to Soul: Value Transformations and Disjunctures of Diaspora in Urban Ghana 28 2. Hip-Hop Comes to Ghana: State Privatization and an Aesthetic of Control 51 3. Rebirth of Hip: Afro-Cosmopolitanism and Masculinity in Accra's New Speech Community 80 4. The Executioner's Words: Genre, Respect, and Linguistic Value 108 5. Scent of Bodies: Parody as Circulation 134 6. Gendering Value for a Female Hiplife Star: Moral Violence as Performance Technology 163 7. No. 1 Mango Street: Celebrity Labor and Digital Production as Musical Value 198 8. Ghana@50 in the Bronx: Sonic Nationalism and New Diasporic Disjunctures 230 Conclusion. Rockstone's Office: Entrepreneurship and the Debt of Celebrity 267 Notes 285 Bibliography 303 Index 317
List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Aesthetics and Aspiration 1 1. Soul to Soul: Value Transformations and Disjunctures of Diaspora in Urban Ghana 28 2. Hip-Hop Comes to Ghana: State Privatization and an Aesthetic of Control 51 3. Rebirth of Hip: Afro-Cosmopolitanism and Masculinity in Accra's New Speech Community 80 4. The Executioner's Words: Genre, Respect, and Linguistic Value 108 5. Scent of Bodies: Parody as Circulation 134 6. Gendering Value for a Female Hiplife Star: Moral Violence as Performance Technology 163 7. No. 1 Mango Street: Celebrity Labor and Digital Production as Musical Value 198 8. Ghana@50 in the Bronx: Sonic Nationalism and New Diasporic Disjunctures 230 Conclusion. Rockstone's Office: Entrepreneurship and the Debt of Celebrity 267 Notes 285 Bibliography 303 Index 317
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