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Rap songs from Public Enemy and Ludacris have been heard at marches over the killing of George Floyd. But the history of Black American music as a form of protest dates back to the 19th century.
A classically trained musician, Schneider influenced a generation of musicians from David Bowie to hip hop.
For the second year in a row, hip-hop music is the most popular form of music in the US. So why isn't it in more of America's classrooms? A hip-hop scholar weighs in.
Jesus is King has polarised discussion. But this genuinely contemporary album will challenge the traditional concept of African American gospel while influencing its shape for years to come.
A film about Cape Town's environmental resources features a cast as diverse as breakdancers and wetland activists - and is being used as a study aid globally.
Hip-hop artists in Nigeria unpack the realities of the country's cyber fraudsters.
With a booming hip hop culture, Paris is the best place to introduce break dancing to the Olympic games.
Theoretically, nothing is "authentic" in hip hop culture.
It was a year when both men and women bared their emotions through music.
The stigma attached to HIV and AIDS, particularly in hip hop culture, is rife. The disease is represented poorly and often factually incorrect through lyrics.
The policing of black British culture has a long history.
Australia is home to a diverse range of female hip hop artists. Here's our guide to five of the best.
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.
Hip hop is a vibrant cultural art form that Canadian public institutions need to embrace. Our aging institutions can get a new life by integrating hip hop with and into traditional art displays.
Music streaming services have stopped promoting R. Kelly as part of a crackdown on musician's alleged conduct. But we should separate the art from the artist.
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.
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.
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Reader in Ethnomusicology, Faculty of Culture and the Creative Industries, University of Central Lancashire
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Curator of Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Victoria, University of Melbourne
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Casual lecturer, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor, RTA School of Media, Faculty of Communication and Design Forum, Ryerson University
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University
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School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of History, Hunter College
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Head of School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University
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Professor of English, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor of Popular Music, University of Sydney
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Honorary Research Associate, Cultural Studies Group, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, Bangor University
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Lecturer in Improvisation & Contemporary Music, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in American Studies at the US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
