Includes bibliographical references ( p. [303]-316) and index.

Soul to soul : value transformations and disjunctures of diaspora in urban Ghana -- Hip-hop comes to Ghana : state privatization and an aes thetics of control -- Re-birth of hip : Afro-cosmopolitanism and mascul inity in Accra's new speech community -- The executioner's words : genr e, respect, and linguistic value -- Scent of bodies : parody as circula tion -- Gendering value for a female hiplife star : moral violence as p erformance technology -- Number one Mango Street : celebrity labor and digital production as musical value -- Ghana@50 in the Bronx : sonic na tionalism and new diasporic disjunctures -- Rockstone's office : entrep reneurship and the debt of celebrity.