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THE POWER OF HIP HOP EXCHANGE: PROGRAMME

EVENT MODERATOR

James Thompson

In Place of War

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Jason Nichols

Lean wit it: Black masculinities in hip hop dance

Martha Diaz        

Hip-Hop without borders: A revolutionary global movement of struggle, liberation and sustainable living

PANEL: POWER OF PLACE & IDENTITY

Beyza Ucak        

Hip Hop as Heritage: “Hip Hop M.app”

Donalea Scott

The burden of being cool: The impact of globalise popular representations on Black British cultural production.

Westley Barnes   

Staying on point in the early 90s: A Tribe Called Quest and the New Sincerity in East Coast Hip Hop

Chair: James Butterworth

PANEL: CULTURAL POWER OF HIP HOP

Peter Kilroy         

Indigenous Australian Hip Hop: Recognition and Redistribution

Karina Gordok    

Digressing the border lines – hip hop and the social dimensions of anti-normativity

Yvette Griffiths    

You know you that b**** when you cause all this conversation: The problem of the black music celebrity as social activist

Chair: Silhouette Bushay=

ARTIST VOICES

Smockey                  

What happened when the government bombed my studio

Zambezi News    

Satire & Hip Hop changing the face of political activism in Zimbabwe

SHHORAI      

When a woman loves hip hop

 

PANEL: GLOBAL POWER OF HIP HOP

Latifa Martini       

The phonemenon of Jogja’s hip hop as a means of culture and a political tool of Sultan’s kingdom

Laura Mills          

Hip hop and the US State Department: Taking diplomacy to the next level?

Sofia Gjerstad    

Gender and Palestinian hip hop

Soudeh Ghafferi 

Performing religious rituals through hip-hop rhythms

Chair: Teresa Bean

 

PANEL: HIP HOP & PEDAGOGY

Güneş Güven   

Rhyme & Reason

Carol Jean Gallo 

Bongo Flava: Education and Hip Hop in Tanzania

Steven Gamble    

The rap persona as a model of empowerment in Little Simz’s ‘Bars Simzson’

Silhouette Bushay

Hip-hop as critical pedagogy in academic spaces

Chair: Eithne Quinn

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