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CONTENTS
List of illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction
Aesthetics and Aspiration 1
1.
Soul to Soul: Value Transformations and Disjunctures
of Diaspora in Urban Ghana 28
2.
Hip-Hop Comes to Ghana: State Privatization and an
Aesthetic of Control 51
3.
Rebirth of Hip: Afro-Cosmopolitanism and Masculinity
in Accra’s New Speech Community 80
4.
The Executioner’s Words: Genre, Respect, and
Linguistic Value 108
5.
Scent of Bodies: Parody as Circulation 134
6.
Gendering Value for a Female Hiplife Star:
Moral Violence as Performance Technology 163
7.
No. 1 Mango Street: Celebrity Labor and Digital
Production as Musical Value 198
8.
Ghana@5O in the Bronx:
Sonic Nationalism and New Diasporic Disjunctures 230
Conclusion
Rockstone’s Office:
Entrepreneurship and the Debt of Celebrity 267
Notes 285
Bibliography303
Index 317