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Flip the Script:  European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality

Flip the Script: European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality

J. Griffith Rollefson, The University of Chicago Press, 2017

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  • Introduction – Hip Hop as Postcolonial Art and Practice
  • Chapter 1 – “J’accuse”: Postcolonial Paris
  • Chapter 2 – Nostalgia “En noir et blanc”
  • Chapter 3 – Americanization in Aggro Berlin
  • Chapter 4 – Heiße Waren: The Commercial Authentic
  • Chapter 5 – M.I.A.’s “Terrorist Chic” in Postcolonial London
  • Chapter 6 – Marché Noir: The Hip Hop Hustle in the City of Light
  • Chapter 7 – “Wherever We Go”: UK Hip Hop
  • Chapter 8 – “Straight Outta B.C.”: Juice Aleem’s Defness
  • Conclusion – Hip Hop Studies and/as Postcolonial Studies

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CIPHER on the RTÉ News

15 Nov 202115 Nov 2021
Thanks to Jennie O'Sullivan, who interviewed me, Warrick, and Spek for her news piece on the national RTÉ six one news. As she writes in this piece: "Hip hop fans…
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CIPHER on RTÉ 2 FM

29 Jan 202015 Nov 2021
An interview about CIPHER with RTÉ 2 FM's Eoghan McDermott.  From a while back, but wasn't posted and has some good discussion of the research project. https://soundcloud.com/rte2fm/griff-rollefson-talks-hip-hop-with-eoghan?in=rte2fm/sets/eoghan-mcdermott-ii
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Cork Discovers – European Research Night

13 Dec 201913 Dec 2019
A late addition to the Book Blog -- Cork Migrant Centre Dancers and Kabin Crew at UCC! On 27 September from 5:30-7pm we had another hip hop takeover of UCC…
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Flip the Script wins the Society for Ethnomusicology’s inaugural Ruth Stone Prize

13 Nov 20191 May 2020
Absolutely thrilled to announce that Flip the Script has just been announced as the inaugural recipient of the Ruth Stone Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology.  The Stone Prize "recognizes the most…
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Free Examination Copy?!

28 Aug 2019
  Teaching a course that touches on postcoloniality, globalization, media, or race?  You're on.  Get your free examination copy here: https://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/textadoption/requestHandler.html?path=/books/book/chicago/F/bo26955610
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CIPHER JOBS Posted

13 May 20193 Jan 2020
CIPHER JOBS: Post-Doctoral Researchers in Global Hip Hop Studies (2 positions)  (DL: 9.9.19) Senior Research Fellow in Computer Science and Cultural Data Analytics Lecturer in Popular Music Studies +++ 1.…
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Call for Book Chapters: Hip-Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production

1 Mar 20192 Aug 2019
Call for Chapters -- Hip Hop Archives y'all! https://europeanhiphopstudiesnetwork.wordpress.com/2019/01/28/call-for-book-chapters-hip-hop-archives-the-politics-and-poetics-of-knowledge-production/ Hip-Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production Edited by Mark V. Campbell (Ryerson University) Murray Forman (Northeastern University) As…
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€2m from the EU to Study Global Hip Hop Knowledge Flows!

7 Jan 20192 Aug 2019
In all the hoopla, I forgot to do a blog post about my €2 million award from the European Research Council.  It's a five-year global hip hop knowledge mapping project…
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New Review in Journal of World Popular Music by French Hip Hop Scholar, Karim Hammou!

30 Dec 201830 Dec 2018
Review in Journal of World Popular Music by Karim Hammou (author of Une Histoire du rap en France) Published 29 December 2018 "In Flip the Script: European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality, J.…
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Cork Hip Hop on the National Nightly News

18 Dec 2018
After the ERC award was announced Paschal Sheehy of the RTÉ Nightly News contacted me to see if he could do an interview with local artists.  GMC got some of…

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