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CIPHER JOBS Posted

13 May 201915 May 2019

Post-Doctoral Researchers - 2 positions in Global Hip Hop Studies Job Posted: 10 May 2019 Closing Date for Applications: 09 Sep 2019 Department: Department of Music College: College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social…

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€2m from the EU to Study Global Hip Hop Knowledge Flows? Yes, please!

7 Jan 20197 Jan 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

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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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)

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…