Hip Hop Africa: New African Music in a Globalizing World [Paperback]

Hip Hop Africaexplores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical currents, but also active and creative participants. Eric Charry and an international group of contributors look carefully at youth culture and the explosion of hip hop in Africa, the embrace of other contemporary genres, including reggae, ragga, and gospel music, and the continued vitality of drumming. Covering Senegal, Mali, C?te d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and South Africa, this volume offers unique perspectives on the presence and development of hip hop and other music in Africa and their place in global music culture.

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Urban music and youth culture in Africa

Eric Charry is Associate Professor of Music at Wesleyan University. He is author ofMande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africaand has published extensively on music in Africa.

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, C?te 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 C?te 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 CoalcÒ