Jesse Weaver Shipley

Living the Hiplife

Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780822353522
• ISBN-10: 0822353520
• Artikelnr.: 36146788

Autorenporträt

Jesse Weaver Shipley

Inhaltsangabe

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