Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music

Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music

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Author/Contributor(s): Shipley, Jesse Weaver
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 01/28/2013
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
This ethnography of hiplife, a popular Ghanaian music genre combining hip-hop with highlife music, shows how young hiplife artists in Ghana and its diaspora use the music to gain social status, wealth, and respectability.