Book Blog

Live Hip Hop Show and Official Launch of J. Griffith Rollefson's critically acclaimed new book, *Flip the Script: European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality* (University of Chicago Press,…

There's a great new review in the Council for European Studies journal, EuropeNow. Séverin Guillard (University Paris Est Créteil) writes: “a dense and ambitious book that will be valuable to a vast…

The kind folks at University of Chicago Press just hipped me to a great new review on the hip hop blog, ScratchedVinyl.com.  From the review: "Flip the Script is an interesting…

This just in!  Marshal Zeringue has featured my book Flip the Script over at his blog Campaign for the American Reader.  I've also written a short piece for The Page 99…

Flip the Script Spotify playlist w/annotations now up at FauxSounds.com -- click here: https://goo.gl/PTuRJ2  I’ve put this playlist together for Faux Sounds with an ear to what I want to…

In the spring of 2014 I was invited to take part in an absurd debate titled: “This House Would Teach Rap over Shakespeare” at the Cambridge Union Society.  This, my…

Just caught wind of this ill Irish-trad-meets-hip-hop performance on DJ Mek's FB page here.  (DJ Mek is from the legendary Irish crew, Scary Éire).  It's an even better example of Knowledge of Self than what I…

Planet Rap: Global Hip Hop and Postcolonial Perspectives In this course we will study the global spread of hip hop music and culture.  We will start with the music’s prehistory…

The blurbs are in for Flip the Script!   Read the Endorsements (p.s. I didn't make these up!!!) “After four decades, the old US cultural copyrights on hip hop have expired.…

This episode is drawn from Chapter 2 of the book, "Nostalgia 'En noir et blanc': Black Music and Postcoloniality from Sefyu’s Paris to Buddy Bolden’s New Orleans." https://youtu.be/DR_4aR9hVoM The chapter…