The Hiplife in Ghana
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The Hiplife in Ghana

West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop

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eBook - PDF

The Hiplife in Ghana

West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop

About this book

The Hiplife in Ghana explores one international site - Ghana, West Africa - where hip-hop music and culture have morphed over two decades into the hiplife genre of world music. It investigates hiplife music not merely as an imitation and adaptation of hip-hop, but as a reinvention of Ghana's century-old highlife popular music tradition. Author Halifu Osumare traces the process by which local hiplife artists have evolved a five-phased indigenization process that has facilitated a youth-driven transformation of Ghanaian society. She also reveals how Ghana's social shifts, facilitated by hiplife, have occurred within the country's 'corporate recolonization, ' serving as another example of the neoliberal free market agenda as a new form of colonialism. Hiplife artists, we discover, are complicit with these global socio-economic forces even as they create counter-narratives that push aesthetic limits and challenge the neoliberal order.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781137021649
eBook ISBN
9781137021656
Topic
Arte
Subtopic
Arte general

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: “Every Hood Has Its Own Style”
  10. 1. “Making An African Out of the Computer”: Globalization and Indigenization in Hiplife
  11. 2. Empowering the Young: Hiplife’s Youth Agency
  12. 3. “Society of the Spectacle”: Hiplife and Corporate Recolonialization
  13. 4. “The Game”: Hiplife’s Counter-Hegemonic Discourse
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index