Critical Minded. A Celebration of 20 years of Hip-Hop Scholarship in CUNY
Join us for our free symposium celebrating hip hop scholarship in CUNY, along with live performances and a reception. Join us in-person or stream it online!
20 years ago the Institute for Studies in American Music in Brooklyn College published its 35th monograph: Critical Minded. New Approaches to Hip Hop Studies. The book, edited by Ellie Hisama and Evan Rapport, featured innovative pieces examining the genre’s changing dynamics at the turn of the century, all from current faculty and graduate students at the City University of New York.
Today, we use this landmark in the history of our Institute (now the Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music) to celebrate the longlasting legacy and the evergrowing relevance of Hip Hop scholarship emerging from CUNY.
Join us in a free symposium where you will hear the papers that made it into this year’s American Music Review journal, the Critical Minded anniversary issue, all of which were written by CUNY graduate students, faculty and alumni. A keynote speech by the 2004 monograph’s editors Ellie Hisama and Evan Rapport will accompany the paper presentations.
Presenter & Papers
- Rômulo Moraes (CUNY Graduate Center)- “Notes to a Metaphorology of Sampling.”
- Donna-Lee Granville (Brooklyn College)- “Hip-hop Started Out in the Heart”: The Evolution of Hip-hop from Extraction to Consumption.”
- Juliana Catinin (CUNY Graduate Center)- “Amid Urban Contradictions: A Dialectical Reflection on the Role of the Rapper as an Organic Intellectual in Rio de Janeiro.”
- MX Oops (Lehman College) – “ECSTATIC AESTHETICS: DJing and Dancing in Dynamic Time.”
- Stephen Gomez-Peck (University of Alabama)- “The Kendrick Lamar/Drake Beef by the Numbers.”
- Noriko Manabe (Indiana University)- “Awich: A New Era for Japanese Women Rappers.”
- Shekinah Green (Lehman College)- “The Transformation of Urban Art in the Bronx.”
Performers
- Paolo Lembo- Brooklyn College
- Afro Beats Dance Club- Lehman College (Danelli Lora, Sharone perez Tona Leiticia, Nathalia Osaro, Cassandre Novembre, Naomi Obaretin, Aishat Sallau, Efrailin Cuevas, TJ Barner)
A program including authors’ information, as well as details about the live performances in between presentations will be shared soon.
This is a free event, but RSVPs are encouraged to help us plan ahead. The symposium will also be livestreamed. Eventbrite Link below!
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