{"product_id":"living-the-hiplife-celebrity-and-entrepreneurship-in-ghanaian-popular-music-paperback","title":"Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJesse Weaver Shipley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHiplife is a popular music genre in Ghana that mixes hip-hop beatmaking and rap with highlife music, proverbial speech, and Akan storytelling. In the 1990s, young Ghanaian musicians were drawn to hip-hop's dual ethos of black masculine empowerment and capitalist success. They made their underground sound mainstream by infusing carefree bravado with traditional respectful oratory and familiar Ghanaian rhythms. \u003ci\u003eLiving the Hiplife\u003c\/i\u003e is an ethnographic account of hiplife in Ghana and its diaspora, based on extensive research among artists and audiences in Accra, Ghana's capital city; New York; and London. Jesse Weaver Shipley examines the production, consumption, and circulation of hiplife music, culture, and fashion in relation to broader cultural and political shifts in neoliberalizing Ghana.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipley shows how young hiplife musicians produce and transform different kinds of value--aesthetic, moral, linguistic, economic--using music to gain social status and wealth, and to become respectable public figures. In this entrepreneurial age, youth use celebrity as a form of currency, aligning music-making with self-making and aesthetic pleasure with business success. Registering both the globalization of electronic, digital media and the changing nature of African diasporic relations to Africa, hiplife links collective Pan-Africanist visions with individualist aspiration, highlighting the potential and limits of social mobility for African youth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author has also directed a film entitled \u003ci\u003eLiving the Hiplife\u003c\/i\u003e and with two DJs produced mixtapes that feature the music in the book available for free download.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJesse Weaver Shipley is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Haverford College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 28, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51817086058784,"sku":"9780822353669","price":64.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/952a40bbfc8770ed42741a55bfc6c173.webp?v=1781095579","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/living-the-hiplife-celebrity-and-entrepreneurship-in-ghanaian-popular-music-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}