Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
5. Introduction. Aesthetics and Aspiration 1
6. 1. Soul to Soul: Value Transformations and Disjunctures of Diaspora in Urban Ghana 28
7. 2. Hip- Hop Comes to Ghana: State Privatization and an Aesthetic of Control 51
8. 3. Rebirth of Hip: Afro- Cosmopolitanism and Masculinity in Accra’s New Speech Community 80
9. 4. The Executioner’s Words: Genre, Respect, and Linguistic Value 108
10. 5. Scent of Bodies: Parody as Circulation 134
11. 6. Gendering Value for a Female Hiplife Star: Moral Violence as PerformanceTechnology 163
12. 7. No. 1 Mango Street: Celebrity Labor and Digital Production as Musical Value 198
13. 8. Ghana@50 in the Bronx: Sonic Nationalism and New Diasporic Disjunctures 230
14. Conclusion. Rockstone’s Office: Entrepreneurship and the Debt of Celebrity 267
15. Notes 285
16. Bibliography 303
17. Index 317