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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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index