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The Hiplife in Ghana: West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop

The Hiplife in Ghana: West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop

Osumare, H.

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General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1137021640
ISBN13: 9781137021649
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Sep 6 2012
Pages: 219
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
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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