The hiplife in Ghana : the West African indigenization of hip-hop /
The Hiplife in Ghana explores one international site, Ghana, West Africa, where hip-hop music and culture has morphed over two decades into a whole new form of world music called hiplife. It investigates hiplife music not merely as an imitation and adaptation of hip-hop, but as a revision of Ghana&#...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9781137021656 1137021659 6613953792 9786613953797 1283641291 9781283641296 1137021640 9781137021649 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | The Hiplife in Ghana explores one international site, Ghana, West Africa, where hip-hop music and culture has morphed over two decades into a whole new form of world music called hiplife. It investigates hiplife music not merely as an imitation and adaptation of hip-hop, but as a revision of Ghana's own century-old popular music called highlife. Local hiplife artists have evolved a five-phased indigenization process that has facilitated a dynamic youth agency transforming Ghanaian society. However these social shifts, facilitated by hiplife, have occurred within Ghana's 'corporate recolonization, ' serving as another example of neoliberalism's global free market agenda that has become a new form of colonialism. The text examines hiplife artists' complicity with these socio-economic forces, while also creating counter-hegemonic projects that challenge this socio-economic context and push aesthetics limits at the same time. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes index and bibliography. |
| Library Staff: | View instance in FOLIO |