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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…

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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…