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Living the hiplife celebrity and entrepreneurship in Ghanaian popular music
Author
Title
Living the hiplife [electronic resource] : celebrity and entrepreneurship in Ghanaian popular music / Jesse Weaver Shipley.
ISBN
9780822395904 (electronic bk.)
0822395908 (electronic bk.)
9780822353522 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822353520 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822353669 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822353660 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Durham and London : Duke University Press, 2013.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 329 p. : ill.)
Local Notes
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Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Variant and related titles
e-Duke books scholarly collection 2013.
Other formats
Print version: Shipley, Jesse Weaver Living the hiplife Durham and London : Duke University Press, 2013
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 24, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Soul to soul : value transformations and disjunctures of diaspora in urban Ghana
Hip-hop comes to Ghana : state privatization and an aesthetics of control
Re-birth of hip : Afro-cosmopolitanism and masculinity in Accra's new speech community
The executioner's words : genre, respect, and linguistic value
Scent of bodies : parody as circulation
Gendering value for a female hiplife star : moral violence as performance technology
Number one Mango Street : celebrity labor and digital production as musical value
Ghana@50 in the Bronx : sonic nationalism and new diasporic disjunctures
Rockstone's office : entrepreneurship and the debt of celebrity.
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