Living the Hiplife : Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music PDF
by Shipley Jesse Weaver Shipley
Description
Shipley shows how young hiplife musicians produce and transform different kinds of value-aesthetic, moral, linguistic, economic-using music to gain social status and wealth, and to become respectable public figures. In this entrepreneurial age, youth use celebrity as a form of currency, aligning music-making with self-making and aesthetic pleasure with business success. Registering both the globalization of electronic, digital media and the changing nature of African diasporic relations to Africa, hiplife links collective Pan-Africanist visions with individualist aspiration, highlighting the potential and limits of social mobility for African youth.
The author has also directed a film entitled Living the Hiplife and with two DJs produced mixtapes that feature the music in the book available for free download.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:344 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:28/01/2013
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- ISBN:9780822395904
Information
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:344 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:28/01/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9780822395904