The Hiplife in Ghana: West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop

The Hiplife in Ghana: West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop Osumare H. Wydawca: Palgrave Macmillan Data wydania: 2012 ISBN: 9781349437672 Liczba stron: 219 Format: 216 x 140 Rodzaj oprawy: Paperback / softback Opis produktu: 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.