[FA Worldmusic] hip life (Ghana) and coup?-d?cal? (Ivory Coast)

[josh at ncta.net]

if you are interested in hip life, be sure to check out 

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/bluffer/hiplife.htm

for a nice primer on Hip-life and the artists from Ghana north and south to check out







>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sean Barlow [mailto:Sean at afropop.org]
>Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 05:49 PM
>To: fa-worldmusic at folk.org
>Cc: globe-l at nevada.edu
>Subject: [FA Worldmusic] hip life (Ghana) and coup?-d?cal? (Ivory Coast)
>
>Hello all-Today's African youth music such as hip life from Ghana and
>coupi-dicali from Ivory Coast is largely under the radar screen. These styles
>get almost zero attention from roots-loving world music fans. But there is
>some good stuff out there. Here's our new Co-Producer, Siddhartha Mitter's
>conversations with some of the leading experts on these styles:
>
>http://www.afropop.org/multi/feature/ID/709
>
>
>
>Discography for Hip life and coupi-dicali:
>
>http://www.afropop.org/multi/discography/ID/674
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>
>Banning Eyre's review of Tinariwen's "Aman Iman: Water is Life" (World
>Village):
>
>http://www.afropop.org/explore/album_review/ID/3279
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