Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2012--Title page verso.
Every Hood Has It's Own Style' 'Making an African out of the Computer': Globalization and Indigenization in Hiplife 'Empowering the Young': Hiplife's Youth Agency 'Society of the Spectacle': Hiplife and Corporate Recolonialization 'The Game': Hiplife's Counter-Hegemonic Discourse
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.