Shipley, Jesse Weaver. <br/><br/>
Living the hiplife :  celebrity and entrepreneurship in Ghanaian p opular music / 
Jesse Weaver Shipley. 
 - Durham and London :  Duke University Press,  2013. 
 - xiii, 329 p., [8] p. of plates:  ill.;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references ( p. [303]-316) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780822353669 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012-034575 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Rap (Music)--History and criticism.--Ghana<br/>Rap musicians--Ghana.<br/>Popular music--History and criticism.--Ghana<br/>Hip-hop--Ghana.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>781.63