Shipley Living the Hiplife

Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9590-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shipley, Jesse Weaver

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Jesse Weaver Shipley is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Haverford College.