The diss tracks released by rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar raise interesting questions about defamation in music lyrics.
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Since rap’s emergence, artists have boasted about themselves in ways that were funny and sometimes violent, vulgar and sexist. The popularity of the music and its exploitation can be dangerous.
A reconsideration of Nas’s literary clout, 30 years after the release of Illmatic.
Wales has a rich musical heritage, and the next generation is ready to take centre stage.
Since its birth 50 years ago, hip-hop music has embraced artists of every race and ethnic background. An avowed hip-hop hater might be a step too far.
A new documentary highlights teaching techniques of an educator who went the extra mile for her students.
Looking back at the history of the diss track, it is the strength of female emcees that stands out.
Asian martial arts and films functioned as mythic models which inspired Black and brown youth in the making of ‘urban warriors,’ and later the Wu-Tang Clan.
Canadian R&B artists, including Drake, have built lifestyle brands that simultaneously reinforce and challenge dominant beliefs about R&B music as Black and American, and Canadian identity as white.
Created as an art of resistance by Black artists in the U.S., hip-hop culture has inspired global struggles and youth culture across the world, including in Canada.
A critical race theory scholar explains why it’s problematic to use rap lyrics as evidence of a crime, and what some lawmakers are doing to protect artistic expression.
Modern music education is giving students more and more opportunities to create their own tracks.
The lyrics illustrate what it means to grow up young, black and deprived on the fortress like council estates of London.
Afrofuturism, a mix of science fiction, magic realism and liberation politics, has shaped some hip-hop artists’ work for decades.
Dip hop artists move across the stage, hands flying through the air, as audiences pulse to the rhythm of a blasting bass beat.
Hip-hop traveled far after being birthed by Black Americans in US cities. The journey hasn’t always been smooth.
Greater representation in rap from LGBTQ artists comes as mainstream artists atone for past lyrics.
Latino artists have been forging their own paths in hip-hop for decades, giving voice to young peoples’ pain, faith and demands for change.
Composer Nicholas Britell festoons earnest Romantic music with sounds that gleefully desecrate it, underscoring the show’s emotional core: a lust for power joined by immense self-loathing.
Hip hop’s swaggering braggadocio acts as a counterpoint to the Roy family’s rarefied worlds of high finance and plutocratic untouchability.
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Associate Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
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Research Lead at Rhythm Obscura / Lecturer in the School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Plymouth
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Assistant Professor of Practice, Mills College
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Senior Curator of Australian and First Nations Art, National Gallery of Victoria, The University of Melbourne
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Casual lecturer, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of STEM Education, Seton Hall University
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University
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Assistant Professor, RTA School of Media, Faculty of Communication and Design Forum, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Piano Performance Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in American Studies at the US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Popular Music, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
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Assistant Professor of History, Hunter College
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Visiting Researcher in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Lecturer in Improvisation & Contemporary Music, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne
