Living the hiplife : celebrity and entrepreneurship in Ghanaian p opular music - Shipley, Jesse Weaver (Durham and London : Duke University Press, 2013)
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.
Includes bibliographical references ( p. [303]-316) and index.
Keywords: Rap (Music) -- Ghana -- History and criticism; Rap musicians -- Ghana; Popular music -- Ghana -- History and criticism; Hip-hop -- Ghana