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The Hiplife in Ghana - West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012)
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The Hiplife in Ghana - West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012)
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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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