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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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Front page news, bai!

18 Dec 201818 Dec 2018
I did an hour-long interview with The Irish Examiner's Noel Baker a day after my ERC was announced.  Really solid interviewer, felt really good about the points I made... but…
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PRESS RELEASE: 10 December 2018 Global Advisory Council Announced for €2million Global Hip Hop Study

10 Dec 20181 Jan 2019
PRESS RELEASE: 10 December 2018 Full Press Release as PDF here:   PRESS RELEASE Global Hip Hop Council-05 Global Advisory Council Announced for €2million Global Hip Hop Study A 12-person global…
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Press: Great Article on Irish Hip Hop (even w/o proper #CorkRapRenaissance props)

14 Nov 201818 Dec 2018
Great article by @UnaMullally in the Irish Times about the rise of Irish hip hop.  Includes the observation (at the heart of the conclusion to Flip the Script)  that: "Hip…
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Press: The Sun (Friday, 19 October 2018)

24 Oct 2018
Part two of a long interview I did with Dave Donnelly, Music Critic for the Irish Sun.  The conversation gets to the heart of my current work with Irish hip…
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Press: The Sun (Friday, 12 October 2018)

13 Oct 201824 Oct 2018
Had a good interview with Dave Donnelly of The Sun.  Like the direction he took the piece, though some details are scrambled.  Read the full interview here: https://www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/music/3247589/ucc-professor-griffith-rollefson-releases-book/
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New Review in JPMS! Get FLIP THE SCRIPT on your Syllabi this Semester!!

14 Aug 201812 Oct 2018
Meghan Drury has just published a great review of my book, Flip the Script: European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality, in IASPM's flagship Journal of Popular Music Studies.  It's available for…
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Press: TheJournal.ie (Sunday, 15 April 2018)

18 Apr 201821 Jul 2018
The book – Flip the Script: European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality – positions European hip hop as drawing strongly from the influences of the United States to relay the…
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Griff on RTÉ Drivetime (10 April 2018)

14 Apr 201815 Aug 2018
Griff on the 4-7 National Drivetime Radio Show (Talking about Hip Hop Related Moral Panics!). Skip to the last 10 minutes of the multi-hour show: http://www.rte.ie/radio1/drivetime/programmes/2018/0410/953464-drivetime-tuesday-10-april-2018/?clipid=102780095#102780095
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Press: Cork Independent (11 April 2018)

14 Apr 201814 Apr 2018
Hip hop provides and has been providing a voice for the voiceless, the disenfranchised for decades since its origins in New York. The very existence of it is a political…
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Press Release: Book Launch

13 Apr 201814 Apr 2018
From Brexit to Trumpism, global hip hop provides strikingly prophetic commentary on today’s pressing issues, according to a UCC expert in his critically-acclaimed new book. Global hip hop is a…

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