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Living the Hiplife Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in ~ Hiplife is a popular music genre in Ghana that mixes hiphop beatmaking and rap with highlife music proverbial speech and Akan storytelling In the 1990s young Ghanaian musicians were drawn to hiphops dual ethos of black masculine empowerment and capitalist success

Living the Hiplife Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in ~ Jesse Weaver Shipleys Living the Hiplife is a recently released academic work focused on the music and business of Hiplife a musical genre from Ghana that combines hip hop and highlife It follows the earlier release of the documentary Living The HipLife and paints a rich portrait of an industry and an aesthetic landscape in which both cassettes and lowend cellphones are primary technologies

Living the Hiplife Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in ~ Living the Hiplife Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music By Jesse Weaver Shipley Durham NC Duke University Press 2013 xiii 329 p ISBN 9780822353669 25 Music examples illustrations notes bibliography index Living the Hiplife is a wellbalanced ethnographic account of the current popular music scene in Ghana

Living the Hiplife Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in ~ Living the Hiplife Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music is an ethnography of hiplife a popular Ghanaian music genre that combines hiphop with highlife music and proverbial lyrics The chapters tell tales of aspiration commodity culture and celebrity to show how life in urban Accra is intimately linked to the increasingly transnational lives of African youth

Living the Hiplife Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in ~ Hiplife is a popular music genre in Ghana that mixes hiphop beatmaking and rap with highlife music proverbial speech and Akan storytelling In the 1990s young Ghanaian musicians were drawn

Review Living the Hiplife Celebrity and ~ The first chapter places hiplife in the context of an earlier era of popular music production in Ghana Highlife music flourished in coastal West Africa between the 1920s and 1960s as artists creatively recombined European African and black diasporic styles and instruments

Living the Hiplife celebrity and entrepreneurship in ~ Living the Hiplife celebrity and entrepreneurship in Ghanaian popular music by Jesse Weaver Shipley review

Project MUSE Living the Hiplife Celebrity and ~ Living the Hiplife is a wellbalanced ethnographic account of the current popular music scene in Ghana This work is part of a series of publications that provide an updated perspective on Ghanaian highlife music since the seminal work of John Collins in the 1990s Highlife Time Accra Ghana Anansesem Publications 1996

Project MUSE Living the Hiplife celebrity and ~ JESSE WEAVER SHIPLEY Living the Hiplife celebrity and entrepreneurship in Ghanaian popular music Durham NC and London Duke University Press hb 8995 – 978 0 8223 5352 2 2013 344 pp Durham NC and London Duke University Press hb 8995 – 978 0 8223 5352 2 2013 344 pp