A greater synergy between academics and practitioners is needed to progress hip hop for it to be taken seriously as a core area for study.
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Hip-hop heads around the world are rejoicing over Kendrick Lamar’s win. But it’s been a tumultuous ride for a genre once derided as ‘pornographic filth.’
The current global dominance of Canadian music on today’s Billboard charts obscures the difficulties many early rap artists faced in garnering local support for this country’s hip hop music.
Eminem’s Stan – how the childhood trauma of Eminem’s superfan played its part in a tragic story.
The international community has failed to recognise the new political visions being articulated by young musicians and activists across Africa.
A.B. Original made waves in 2017, but Indigenous hip hop has flourished since the 1980s.
Pinching musical phrases and stylistic approaches has always been a part of art making and can be a respectful exchange. But shallow, ill-informed appropriation only perpetuates tired stereotypes.
Australian rapper Joelistics and producer James Mangohig bring their family histories to the stage through a breathtaking display of beats, raps and storytelling.
Rap has become instrumental in constructing identity and radically reshaping relations to politics in Gabon and other African states.
Bootlegs will continue to be manufactured.
The future of the bootleg might just reinvent the official release.
In 4:44, his 13th album, Jay-z gets confessional and socio-political, challenging traditional notions of Black male bravado and masculinity.
Hip hop often gets a bad rap but for therapists and teachers it can be a transformative tool.
Tupac’s sensitivity, intelligence and creativity confronted the hostile forces that antagonized black youth across the country in the 1970s and 1980s.
The recently deceased funk drummer Clyde Stubblefield created arguably the most sampled drum track in the history of popular music – but he rarely got the credit, or the payment, he deserved.
Skepta’s Mercury Prize win has put grime – and youth culture – in the spotlight.
Music and politics have long been intertwined and political patronage can sometimes lead artists to self-censor. On the other hand, some musicians are just more interested in entertainment than politics.
Hip hop is starting to be used in schools and in the community in creative and diverse ways.
The Avalanches’ legendary first album, Since I Left You, was a modern classic, built from more than 3500 music samples. Sixteen years on, they’re finally releasing a second one - but will it resonate in an age when everyone samples?
If the governing ANC ignores the calls for Zuma’s resignation,it may undermine South Africa’s leadership on the continent. It creates the idea that he can undermine the constitution with impunity.
Hip-hop artists do it differently in a town in one of South Africa’s poorest provinces. Eschewing the archetypal hip-hop lifestyle, Grahamstown’s rappers propose a surprising alternative.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
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Research Lead at Rhythm Obscura / Lecturer in the School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Plymouth
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Assistant Professor of Practice, Mills College
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Senior Curator of Australian and First Nations Art, National Gallery of Victoria, The University of Melbourne
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Casual lecturer, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of STEM Education, Seton Hall University
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University
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Assistant Professor, RTA School of Media, Faculty of Communication and Design Forum, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Piano Performance Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in American Studies at the US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Popular Music, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
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Assistant Professor of History, Hunter College
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Visiting Researcher in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Lecturer in Improvisation & Contemporary Music, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne
