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Living the Hiplife

Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music

By: Jesse Weaver Shipley

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Living the Hiplife

Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music

By: Jesse Weaver Shipley

Hiplife 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. Living the Hiplife 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. Shipley 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. The author has also directed a film entitled Living the Hiplife and with two DJs produced mixtapes that feature the music in the book available for free download.

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Duke University Press

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0822395908

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9780822395904

Trickster Theatre

The Poetics of Freedom in Urban Africa

By: Jesse Weaver Shipley

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Trickster Theatre

The Poetics of Freedom in Urban Africa

By: Jesse Weaver Shipley

Trickster Theatre traces the changing social significance of national theatre from its rise as an idealistic state project during independence through the revolutionary 1980s to its electronic adaptations in the neoliberal era. Jesse Weaver Shipley presents portraits of many key figures in Ghanaian theatre, describes theatre events and their political and social impact, and looks into the cultural conditions in which the Ghanaian theatre evolved. Tracing how performers, directors, culture workers, and playwrights developed theatre as a new form of critical public knowledge, Shipley shows how Ananse trickster storytelling traditions were repurposed in new contexts as expressions of national identity.

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0253016452

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9780253016454

Trickster Theatre

The Poetics of Freedom in Urban Africa

By: Jesse Weaver Shipley

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The Poetics of Freedom in Urban Africa

By: Jesse Weaver Shipley

Trickster Theatre traces the changing social significance of national theatre in Ghana from its rise as an idealistic state project from the time of independence to its reinvention in recent electronic, market-oriented genres. Jesse Weaver Shipley presents portraits of many key figures in Ghanaian theatre and examines how Akan trickster tales were adapted as the basis of a modern national theatre. This performance style tied Accra's evolving urban identity to rural origins and to Pan-African liberation politics. Contradictions emerge, however, when the ideal Ghanaian citizen is a mythic hustler who stands at the crossroads between personal desires and collective obligations. Shipley examines the interplay between on-stage action and off-stage events to show how trickster theatre shapes an evolving urban world.

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Indiana University Press

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0253016592

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9780253016591

Living the Hiplife

Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music

By: Jesse Weaver Shipley

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Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music

By: Jesse Weaver Shipley

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Duke University Press

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