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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…

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…

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…

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/

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…

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…

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

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…

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…