On this solo episode of The Hip Hop African Podcast, Msia explores the query: What’s Hip Hop Research?
The episode approaches Hip Hop Research from an African Research and cultural research perspective. Msia explains that Hip Hop Research is just not merely the examine of rap music. It’s an interdisciplinary area that examines hip-hop tradition as efficiency, politics, language, id, pedagogy, social critique, and international information manufacturing.
The episode traces the expansion of Hip Hop Research within the academy, together with Howard College’s historic function in internet hosting one of many first college hip-hop programs and conferences in 1991. It additionally discusses the rise of Hip Hop Research applications at establishments such because the College of Arizona, Bowie State College, North Carolina Central College, and Howard College.
Msia highlights the sector’s foundational texts and students, together with James Spady, Tricia Rose, Joan Morgan, Bakari Kitwana, Imani Perry, Gwendolyn Pough, Jeff Chang, Samy Alim, Murray Forman, and Mark Anthony Neal.
A significant focus of the episode is the place of Africa and the African diaspora inside Hip Hop Research. Msia argues that Africa shouldn’t be handled as peripheral to the sector or solely as a supply of affect. As a substitute, African hip-hop scenes and scholarship should be understood as central to how Hip Hop Research is being redefined globally.
Subjects Coated
Talked about Texts
- Nation Acutely aware Rap — James Spady
- Black Noise — Tricia Rose
- When Chickenheads Come House to Roost — Joan Morgan
- The Hip Hop Technology — Bakari Kitwana
- Prophets of the Hood — Imani Perry
- Verify It Whereas I Wreck It — Gwendolyn Pough
- Can’t Cease Gained’t Cease — Jeff Chang
- Roc the Mic Proper — H. Samy Alim
- That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Research Reader — Murray Forman and Mark Anthony Neal
Hyperlink to our record of Hip Hop journals
Closing Thought
Hip Hop Research is just not solely about the place hip-hop started. It’s also about the place hip-hop travels, how communities use it to relate their realities, and the way Africa and the International South are reshaping the sector itself.
