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Title:

Hip hop Africa : new African music in a globalizing world / edited by Eric Charry.

Publisher:

Indiana University Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

x, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Rap (Music)--Africa--History and criticism.
Popular music--Africa--History and criticism.
Hip-hop--Africa.
Music and youth--Africa.
Music and globalization--Africa.
Popular music--Social aspects--Africa.

Other Authors:

Charry, Eric S., editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-347, discography (pages [349]-359), videography (pages [361]-363, and index.

Contents:

Music for an African twenty-first century / Eric Charry. Drumming (Mali). 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, C©þte 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 C©þte 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.

Series:

African expressive cultures

ISBN:

9780253005823 (ebook)
0253005825 (ebook)
0253005752 (paperback : alkaline paper)
9780253005755 (paperback : alkaline paper)
0253003075 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780253003072 (cloth : alkaline paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)752072595

LCCN:

2011052793

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)