Jesse W Shipley
Jesse Weaver Shipley, Ph.D. Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Chicago, is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Coordinator of Africana Studies, and a member of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Program at Haverford College. His research focuses on performance, theatre, sound, image, popular culture, music, and film in Ghana and recent African Diasporas. He is concerned with urban life, labor, entrepreneurship, mobility, and new media technologies as they relate to life under changing economic regimes. He has conducted field research in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Britain, and the United States. He is the author of LIVING THE HIPLIFE: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music (Duke University Press 2013) and TRICKSTER THEATRE: The Poetics of Freedom in Urban Africa (Indiana University Press, 2015). He is a filmmaker and visual-performance artist with recent work including feature documentaries LIVING THE HIPLIFE: Musical Life in the Streets of Accra and IS IT SWEET?: Tales of an African Superstar in New York, the multi-channel video installations "Black Star" and "Investigated" (with Khadija von Zinenburg Carroll), and experimental films "High Tea." Journal articles include publications in Public Culture, American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist, Social Text, Cultural Anthropology, and Anthropological Quarterly. He is completing two new book manuscripts, one on the historical relationship between public culture, political spectacle, and charismatic leadership, and the other on global parody. His other new research examines boxing and football as transnational sports.
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