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The hiplife in Ghana : the West African indigenization of hip-hop

Title: The hiplife in Ghana : the West African indigenization of hip-hop / Halifu Osumare.
Author: Osumare, Halifu
Publication: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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Description

xii, 219 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-211) and index.

Contents

Introduction : "every hood has its own style" -- 1. "Making an African out of the computer": globalization and indigenization in hiplife -- 2. Empowering the young : hiplife's youth agency -- 3. "Society of the spectacle" : hiplife and corporate recolonialization -- 4. "The game" : hiplife's counter-hegemonic discourse.

Call Number

Sc D 22-525

ISBN

9781137021649
1137021640
9781137405067
1137405066

OCLC

792747590

Author

Osumare, Halifu, author.

Title

The hiplife in Ghana : the West African indigenization of hip-hop / Halifu Osumare.

Publisher

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-211) and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc D 22-525

JMD 13-216

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