Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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

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

Inhalt

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