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