Hip hop Africa : new African music in a globalizing world /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington ; Indianapolis :
Indiana University Press,
[2012]
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| Series: | African expressive cultures.
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Table of Contents:
- A capsule history of African rap / Eric Charry
- Rap stories (Ghana and South Africa). The birth of Ghanaian hiplife : urban style, black thought, proverbial speech / Jesse Weaver Shipley ; A genre coming of age : transformation, difference, and authenticity in the rap music and hip hop culture of South Africa / Lee Watkins
- Griots and messengers (Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, and Malawi). The rapper as modern griot : reclaiming ancient traditions / Patricia Tang ; Promises of the chameleon : reggae artist Tiken Jah Fakoly's intertextual contestation of power in Côte d'Ivoire / Daniel B. Reed ; Style, message, and meaning in Malawian youth rap and ragga performances / John Fenn
- Identity and hybridity (Mali and Nigeria). Mapping cosmopolitan identities : rap music and male youth culture in Mali / Dorothea E. Schulz ; Nigerian hip hop : exploring a black world hybrid / Stephanie Shonekan
- East coast (Kenya and Tanzania). The local and global in Kenyan rap and hip hop culture / Jean Ngoya Kidula ; Imitation and innovation in the music, dress, and camps of Tanzanian youth / Alex Perullo
- Popular music panoramas (Ghana and Malawi). Contemporary Ghanaian popular music since the 1980s / John Collins ; Popular music and young male audiences in contemporary Malawi / Jochen Seebode
- Drumming (Mali). Urban drumming : traditional jembe celebration music in a west African city (Bamako) / Rainer Polak
- Music for an African twenty-first century / Eric Charry.