Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music

by Jesse Weaver Shipley

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Hiplife is a popular music genre in Ghana that mixes hip-hop beatmaking and rap with highlife music, proverbial speech, and Akan storytelling. In the 1990s, young Ghanaian musicians were drawn to hip-hop's dual ethos of black masculine empowerment and capitalist success. They made their underground sound mainstream by infusing carefree bravado with traditional respectful oratory and familiar Ghanaian rhythms. Living the Hiplife is an ethnographic...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822353660

ISBN13:9780822353669

Release Date:January 2013

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:344 Pages

Weight:0.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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Arts, Music & Photography History Music Social Science Social Sciences

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