Hip-hop got its start as a political artistic force in the streets of Bronx. In the age of coronavirus, that same force has taken to the internet.
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Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's song has cause an uproar for its explicit expression of female sexuality.
Clyde Stubblefield's drumming has been sampled or imitated more than 1,000 times since it was recorded in 1970.
Global hip-hop takes many cues from Kung Fu. Contrary to what denouncers might think, there is a rhyme and reason to using 'words as weapons'.
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s blockbuster portrayal of Alexander Hamilton, one of the most colourful founding fathers, opens this month in Toronto.
Music is an underutilised tool when it comes to steering curricula away from strictly Western and colonial models.
For a musician anywhere, surviving and prospering within the genre called jazz has never been easy, and it still isn't.
A crate digger essentially builds a personal library of sonic texts that often can't be found on the internet or in official archives.
One of South Africa's finest hip-hop crews message was that you couldn't box identities forged through multilingual living in the ghettos.
The n-word is a means through which hip hop reminds white listeners of the chasm of culture and experience between them and black America.
Teeming with references to African culture and experience, the couple's latest work places 'blackness'at the heart of the Western canon.
Glover and hip-hop are reaching their apex at the same time, giving Glover an avenue to enter the ranks of creative geniuses. But does his race matter?
In voicing youthful outrage over inequality and violence, Bangladeshi rappers are creating a powerful form of protest music — just as American MCs have done for 40 years.
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.
"The Magnificent Seven" was a slice of daily life, a class struggle song framed by the sound of funk and the emergent hip-hop in New York.
Hip-hop may benefit from a return to the crew and collective mentality, where the DJ once again is valued and plays a central creative role.
At one of his shows, rapper Kendrick Lamar asked a white fan to refrain from rapping the n-word. A video of the incident has reignited a controversy: can white people ever rap the n-word?
What if the current cultural context is informing the production of mumble rap? In the contemporary western world, daily life is fuelled by widespread consumption of both products and images.
The Beastie Boys' Ill Communication closed out hip-hop's Golden Age with a kaleidoscope of jazz-infused beats, bratty punk interludes and a deeper appreciation for storytelling.
Something really magical is happening at the intersection between jazz and hip-hop at the moment. Many of the artists involved will be playing at Africa’s foremost jazz festival.
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Lecturer of English. PhD Candidate in Afrofuturism and African Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Reader in Ethnomusicology, Faculty of Culture and the Creative Industries, University of Central Lancashire
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Casual lecturer, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo
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Reader in Popular Music, University of Glasgow
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Associate Dean: Research and Innovation, University of Salford
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College
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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, University of the Western Cape
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Assistant Professor, RTA School of Media, Faculty of Communication and Design Forum, Ryerson University
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Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor of History and Chair, History and Classical Studies, McGill University
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Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Quinnipiac University
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