Includes bibliographical references ( p. [303]-316) and index.
Contents:
Soul to soul : value transformations and disjunctures of diaspora in urban Ghana -- Hip-hop comes to Ghana : state privatization and an aesthetics of control -- Re-birth of hip : Afro-cosmopolitanism and masculinity in Accra's new speech community -- The executioner's words : genre, respect, and linguistic value -- Scent of bodies : parody as circulation -- Gendering value for a female hiplife star : moral violence as performance technology -- Number one Mango Street : celebrity labor and digital production as musical value -- Ghana@50 in the Bronx : sonic nationalism and new diasporic disjunctures -- Rockstone's office : entrepreneurship and the debt of celebrity.
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