Hip Hop Africa: New African Music in a Globalizing World
- Editor: Charry, Eric
[Eric Charry] has assembled remarkable essays by experts who offer deep historical and cultural connections showing how Africans shape rap to fit their local circumstances — More…
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$42.25Contents
- Preface
- African Rap: A Capsule History Eric Charry
- Part I. Rap Stories (Ghana and South Africa)
- 1. The Birth of Ghanaian Hiplife: Urban Style, Black Thought, Proverbial Speech Jesse Weaver Shipley
- 2. A Genre Coming of Age: Transformation in the Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture of South Africa Lee Watkins
- Part II. Griots and Messengers (Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, and Malawi)
- 3. The Rapper as Modern Griot: Reclaiming Ancient Traditions Patricia Tang
- 4. Promises of the Chameleon: Reggae Artist Tiken Jah Fakoly's Intertextual Contestation of Power in Cote d'Ivoire Daniel Reed
- 5. Style, Message, and Meaning in Malawian Youth Rap and Ragga Performance John Fenn
- Part III. Identity and Hybridity (Mali and Nigeria)
- 6. Mapping Cosmopolitan Identities: Rap Music and Male Youth Culture in Mali Dorothea E. Schulz
- 7. Nigerian Hip Hop: Exploring a Black World Hybrid Stephanie Shonekan
- Part IV. East Coast (Kenya and Tanzania)
- 8. The Local and Global in Kenyan Rap and Hip Hop Culture Jean Ngoya Kidula
- 9. Infinite Flavors: Imitation and Innovation in the Music, Dress, and Camps of Tanzanian Youth Alex Perullo
- Part V. Popular Music Panoramas (Ghana and Malawi)
- 10. Contemporary Ghanaian Popular Music Since the 1980s John Collins
- 11. Popular Music and Young Male Audiences in Contemporary Malawi Jochen Seebode
- Part VI. Drumming (Mali)
- 12. Urban Drumming: Traditional Celebration Music in a West African City (Bamako) Rainer Polak
- Music for an African 21st-Century Eric Charry
- Bibliography
- Discography
- Videography
- Webography
- List of Contributors
- Index