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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…

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…

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…

  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

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…

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.…

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…