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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…

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…