The Hiplife in Ghana

West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop
2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-02164-9
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 219 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Osumare, H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Every Hood Has It's Own Style' 'Making an African out of the Computer': Globalization and Indigenization in Hiplife 'Empowering the Young': Hiplife's Youth Agency 'Society of the Spectacle': Hiplife and Corporate Recolonialization 'The Game': Hiplife's Counter-Hegemonic Discourse

Über Autor(innen)

HALIFU OSUMARE is Associate Professor and Director of African American & African Studies at the University of California, Davis, USA. She is also the author of .