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The Hiplife in Ghana

By H. Osumare

The Hiplife in Ghana Law

The Hiplife in Ghana

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
219
Release Date:
2012-09-06
Publication Date:
2012-09-06
Publisher:
Palgrave MacMillan Us
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1349437670
ISBN13:
9781349437672
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
298 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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