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1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| 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. |
| Contents |
'Every Hood Has It's Own Style' -- 'Making an African out of the Computer': Globalization and Indigenization in Hiplife -- 'Empowering the Young': Hiplife's Youth Agency -- 'Society of the Spectacle': Hiplife and Corporate Recolonialization -- 'The Game': Hiplife's Counter-Hegemonic Discourse. |
| Bibliography |
Includes index and bibliography. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hip-hop -- Ghana.
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Hip-hop. |
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Ghana. |
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Rap (Music) -- Ghana -- History and criticism.
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Rap (Music) |
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Hip-hop -- Africa, West.
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West Africa. |
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Rap (Music) -- Africa, West -- History and criticism.
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Rap & Hip-Hop -- Ghana. |
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Cultural studies -- Ghana. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
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Music. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Osumare, Halifu. Hiplife in Ghana. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 9781137021649 (OCoLC)792747590 |
| ISBN |
9781137021656 (electronic book) |
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1137021659 (electronic book) |
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6613953792 |
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9786613953797 |
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1283641291 |
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9781283641296 |
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1137021640 |
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9781137021649 |
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