{"product_id":"the-hiplife-in-ghana-west-african-indigenization-of-hip-hop-paperback","title":"The Hiplife in Ghana: West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eH. Osumare\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHALIFU OSUMARE is Associate Professor and Director of African American \u0026amp; African Studies at the University of California, Davis, USA. She is also the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 219\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 11, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47487591612594,"sku":"9781137405067","price":48.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/4b4011356b2497050dce6e2b7f75a85e.webp?v=1779337598","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-hiplife-in-ghana-west-african-indigenization-of-hip-hop-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}