Hiplife Music In Ghana
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The Hiplife In Ghana
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Author : H. Osumare
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-09-06
The Hiplife In Ghana written by H. Osumare and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-06 with Social Science categories.
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.
Living The Hiplife
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Author : Jesse Weaver Shipley
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2013-01-28
Living The Hiplife written by Jesse Weaver Shipley and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-28 with Social Science categories.
Hiplife is a popular music genre in Ghana that mixes hip-hop beatmaking and rap with highlife music, proverbial speech, and Akan storytelling. In the 1990s, young Ghanaian musicians were drawn to hip-hop's dual ethos of black masculine empowerment and capitalist success. They made their underground sound mainstream by infusing carefree bravado with traditional respectful oratory and familiar Ghanaian rhythms. Living the Hiplife is an ethnographic account of hiplife in Ghana and its diaspora, based on extensive research among artists and audiences in Accra, Ghana's capital city; New York; and London. Jesse Weaver Shipley examines the production, consumption, and circulation of hiplife music, culture, and fashion in relation to broader cultural and political shifts in neoliberalizing Ghana. Shipley shows how young hiplife musicians produce and transform different kinds of value—aesthetic, moral, linguistic, economic—using music to gain social status and wealth, and to become respectable public figures. In this entrepreneurial age, youth use celebrity as a form of currency, aligning music-making with self-making and aesthetic pleasure with business success. Registering both the globalization of electronic, digital media and the changing nature of African diasporic relations to Africa, hiplife links collective Pan-Africanist visions with individualist aspiration, highlighting the potential and limits of social mobility for African youth. The author has also directed a film entitled Living the Hiplife and with two DJs produced mixtapes that feature the music in the book available for free download.
Hiplife Music In Ghana
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Author : Nii Kotei Nikoi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Hiplife Music In Ghana written by Nii Kotei Nikoi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
This research project examines the operation of development discourse in popular culture, how it is reproduced, contested and how alternatives are imagined. It is a post-development study of the production and consumption of Ghanaian hiplife music videos and culture. It explores how hiplife makers challenge development discourse and advance alternative ideas of social transformation. Considering the enduring (and damaging) legacies of colonialism, hiplife as a site of relative freedom of expression is fertile for the potential production of a decolonial vocabulary to heal colonial wounds - undoing colonial sensibilities imposed on the colonized. The project reveals that mainstream male hiplife stars serve as referents for how to successfully inhabit a postcolonial space. Constructing an entrepreneurial branded self through their performance of success, they circulate ideas about what it means to live a "modern" life. However, other artists turn to what I call hiphop praxes, as tools to cultivate new identities. These artists consciously claim their Ghanaianess - and hence blackness - by adopting new performance names; using their own language and accents; and reconfiguring their presentation of self. Channeling these elements through their performance personae they essentially become new beings, reflecting a shift in their consciousness about themselves and their society. The study also explores what the movement towards development has meant for constructions of modern Ghanaian femininity. I argue that the image of the jezebel - women who use their sexuality to exploit men - has become one of the mainstays of hiplife music and its representation of modern womanhood. In hiplife the jezebel image positions women as threats to male success. The study further explores how the articulation of race and gender shapes labor dynamics within the music video industry. I examine how, in the context of racialized beauty ideals, lighter skin increases women's chances of securing employment as performers in the music video industry.
Highlife Saturday Night
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Author : Nate Plageman
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2013
Highlife Saturday Night written by Nate Plageman and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana—when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor—in this penetrating look at musical leisure during a time of social, political, and cultural change. Framing dance band "highlife" music as a central medium through which Ghanaians negotiated gendered and generational social relations, Nate Plageman shows how popular music was central to the rhythm of daily life in a West African nation. He traces the history of highlife in urban Ghana during much of the 20th century and documents a range of figures that fueled the music's emergence, evolution, and explosive popularity. This book is generously enhanced by audiovisual material on the Ethnomusicology Multimedia website.
Highlife Music In West Africa
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Author : Sonny Oti
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2009
Highlife Music In West Africa written by Sonny Oti and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Education categories.
Highlife Music in West Africa is an excursion into the origins and development of an extraordinary music form. Highlife music is essentially an urban music, but unlike dance music performed using Western musical instruments, its dynamism is based less in the aesthetics of form and style than in song-texts. Critics treat highlife as a popular music genre, but this fails to acknowledge the role that the lyrics of highlife music played in the search for political, economic, and national growth and stability in Africa. Highlife musicians' messages, like drama and theater scripts, not only reflect Africa's culture but also highlight her social, economic, and political problems. The involvement of radicals and Pan-Africanists has helped elevate highlife musicians from the status of entertainers to a more serious and responsible one, as modern African town criers, whose song-texts are communal messages, warnings, and counseling.
Hiplife Music And Rap In Ghana As Narrative And Musical Genre
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Author : Florian Carl
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Hiplife Music And Rap In Ghana As Narrative And Musical Genre written by Florian Carl and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Popular music categories.
Highlife Time
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Author : John Collins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Highlife Time written by John Collins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Dance music categories.
Female Highlife Performers In Ghana
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Author : Nana Abena Amoah-Ramey
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-07-27
Female Highlife Performers In Ghana written by Nana Abena Amoah-Ramey and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-27 with Political Science categories.
This book offers a detailed analysis of the history of female musicians in the Highlife music tradition of the Republic of Ghana, particularly the challenges and constraints these women faced and overcame. Highlife – a form of West African music infusing Ghana’s traditional Akan dance rhythms and melodies with European instruments and harmonies – grew in popularity throughout the 20th century and hit its peak in the 1970s and 1980s. Although women played significant roles in the evolution and survival of the genre, few of their contributions have been thoroughly explored or documented. Despite being disregarded and ignored in many spheres, female Highlife musicians thrived and became trailblazers in the Ghanaian music industry, making particularly vibrant contributions to Highlife music in the 1970s. This book presents the voices of female Highlife artists and documents the ideological transformations expressed through their musical works, exploring the challenges they confronted throughout their musical careers and their contributions to music and culture in Ghana.
Hip Life Music
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Author : Issac Akrong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Hip Life Music written by Issac Akrong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
African music is full of life ... we have different ethnic groups, different languages and cultures, moods, shades; it's so dynamic, and we have a message. (Diana Hopeson, pagesc. 2006) My research documents the hip life popular music story from 1990 to 2012, from pre-through post-inception, as driven by rapper and dancer Reggie Rockstone. The histories of European colonization in Ghana, and its shaping. By highlife and American hip hop (via globalization) into hip life music are explored through an insider's lens. This is evidenced by the traditional influencing of the popular culture of hip life. In this 22-year development period, I interconnect the domains of ethnomusicology, African/cultural studies, anthropology, popular music studies, and dance ethnography, drawing on relevant theories. The few studies dedicated solely to hip life in the ethnomusicology discipline at this time precipitate this study. Artist apprenticeship, social impacts, formal education and peer transmission are explored against the backdrop of authenticity, reception, transculturation and mimetic models that shape the meanings of the discussions (traditional versus popular musics). The creativity, subgenres, and related agencies are treated here as well. Hip life has come to stay as Ghanaian popular music. It invokes the tradition's transformations into the modem: as evident in the works of artists from Obrafour, Obour, Tinny, King Ayisoba to Rockstone, the message of African storytelling through rap is deeply hinged on the anchors of the ancient court practice of libation ceremonies. Ghana's Adaha traditional music (of circa 1888) was a strong influence on highlife music through the 1920s, and later, on hip life, and can be seen as an encapsulation of Ghana's history. Ghanaian airwaves currently play a broad spectrum of sub genres of hip life music across the country. I explore the connections and collaborations among rap, traditional hip life, hip dia, dancehall hip life, soca hip life, rag life, twi pop, D-style, accapela hip life, gospel hip life. The hip life celebration comes at a juncture where we also mark the homecoming of hip hop- as traditional music from Africa, to America, and back. Hip life thereby invokes the transplantation of millions of enslaved Africans (with their musics) to the Americas over the generations. On the other hand hip life is thriving in an industry previously, dominated by highlife music. Hence a modem day generational shift and critical reception is experienced. The lyrical content and the use of proverbs by hip life artists (including Kwaw Kesse, King of the Street) speak loud and clear on contemporary social issues. This also is seen in the work of A Plus (in his Letter to the West), the Fela Kuti of hip life musical political commentary. Hip life is popular beyond the ten regions of Ghana. It has established roots globally and is distributed around the world to reach the diaspora. This entry of hip life into the world music spectrum has significantly increased the presence of Ghanaian identity to the body of popular culture and music.
A Revolution Theorized
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Author : E. M. P. Lieshout
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
A Revolution Theorized written by E. M. P. Lieshout and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with categories.