Show & Prove 2012: The Tensions, Contradictions, & Possibilities of Hip Hop Studies
Friday, March 30, 2012
5:00-7:00 pm
Opening Reception & Book Party (Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, Rooms 804/805)
In honor of Sam Seidel’s Hip Hop Genius: Remixing High School Education. Refreshments will be served.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
8:30-8:45 am
Opening Remarks by Dr. Imani Kai Johnson (PS)
9:00-10:20 am
Global Ethnography & Hip Hop (PS)
Moderator: Farbeon Saucedo
Akesha Horton & Chiara Minestrelli, “Global Perspectives on Identity: Using Hip-Hop to Explore Australian Indigenous Cultural and Gender Identity”
Elisabeth Betz, “Exemplifying Multi-Sited Ethnography and Intersectionality: Tongan Hip Hop in Tonga and Beyond”
Vanessa Díaz, “Rethinking Methods and Boundaries in Ethnographic Research: A U.S. Latina Enters/Invades the Cuban Hip Hop Community”
Prophecy, Militancy, & Music: Hip Hop & Religion (CS)
Respondent: Rabbi Darkside
Samiha Rahman, “Muslim Hip-Hop: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion”
Rasul Miller, “From P.L.O. Style to Punks?: Hip Hop, Islam, and the Silencing of Political Dissent”
Rev. Earl Fisher, “The Minority Report: Prophetic Language and Hip-Hop Lyricism”
Not the Master’s Tools: Using Hip Hop Feminism to Negotiate Identity/ies and Experiences in the Lives of Young Black Women (SCA)
Moderator: Dr. Stephanie Troutman
Dr. Elaine Richardson, “Critical Hip Hop Feminist Literacies in an Afterschool Program”
Dr. Bettina Love, “You Don't See Us, But We See You: Southern Black Girls Negotiating Conservatism, Hip Hop & Racial Gender Identities”
Dr. Stephanie Troutman, “Fabulachia: Black Female Student Struggle and Success at Berea College”
10:35-11:55 am
Counternarratives & Healing Redress (PS)
Respondent: Dr. Celiany Rivera
Jocelyn Thomas, “’ You Bring The Freak Out of Me’: An Examination of the Sexual Politics of Hip Hop (Studies)”
Alisa Bierria, “Where Them Bloggers At?" Reflections on Rihanna, Accountability, & Survivor Subjectivity”
Dr. James Braxton Peterson, “Suicide Dayz: Mortal Intertextuality and Personified Intertexts in Hip Hop Music”
Women of the 5th Element: Performing Subjectivity through Beatboxing (CS)
Respondent: Kid Lucky
Gelsey Bell, “Beatboxing from the Box: Vocality, Femininity, and Embodied Musicality”
Jessica Pabón, “Spitting like a “Woman”: Gender Performance in the Art of Beatboxing”
Dr. Shanté “Paradigm” Smalls, “’Make the Music with Your Mouth’: Sonic Subjectivity and Post-Modern Identity Formations in Beatboxing”
Brownness, Hip Hop, and Cultural Hybridity (SCA)
Respondent: Abran Maldano
Ryan Fukumori, “Portraits of the ‘Hip-Hop Scholar’: Das Racist and the Limits of Legibility”
Melissa Castillo-Garsow, “Yo Soy Hip Hop: Transnational Mexicanidad and Mexican Hip Hop in New York”
Marco Cervantes, “San Anto Hip Hop Poetics: Black and Chicana/o Cultural Overlap Through Musical Performance”
Break for Lunch (not provided)
1:00-2:20pm
Hip Hop & the Archives Roundtable (PS)
Moderator: Dr. Jane Carr, English Dept., NYU Workshop on Archival Practice
Katherine A. Reagan, Curator of Rare Books, Cornell University
Ben Ortiz, Curatorial Assistant, Hip Hop Collection, Cornell University
Martha Diaz, Founding Director & Co-Principal Investigator, Hip Hop Education Center
Dr. Nicole Hodges-Persley, Assistant Professor Theater Studies, Hip Hop Archive
Dr. Mary Fogarty, Assistant Professor of Dance Studies, York University
Tahir Hemphill, Founder of the Hip Hop Word Count
Hip Hop & Europe (SCA)
Respondent: Joel McLiven
Sina Nitzsche, “Hip Hop as a Transnational Phenomenon: Possibilities and Pitfalls for Hip Hop Studies”
Dr. Jean-Michel Saint-Paul, “Bending New Corners OF Erik Truffaz: The Influence of Hip Hop in Jazz Music & How an Acoustic Quartet Sounds as an Electric Group”
Julia Averill, “Taking up Talk: African American Vernacular English Among Austrian Teens”
1:00-3:00 pm
Films (CS)
Cuban Hip Hop: Desde Principio (From the Beginning)—75 min. Followed by Q&A with Dir. Vanessa Diaz
Hip Hop Gurlz—8 min. Followed by Q&A with Dir. Tamika Guishard
2:35-4:15 pm
Remixing the Art of the DJ: Music, Art, Writing, & Theater (PS)
Respondent: iona rozeal brown
Todd Craig, “’NO BITING ALLOWED’: College Writing, Citation Strategies and the Hip-Hop DJ”
Patrick Rivers, “How Do You Get to Summer Jam?: A Prospective Musicianship for the Craft of Beat Making”
Karen Jaime, “This is the Remix: Reggie Cabico Samples Hip-Hop Theatre”
Dr. John Jennings, “Where My Eyes Can See: Remixing Design Methodology with the Visual Culture of Hip Hop”
Considering Methodologies & Interdisciplinarity in Hip Hop Studies (SCA)
Respondent: Sam Seidel
Khushdeep Malhotra & Dr. LeConté Dill, “Hip Hop and Poetry as a Means of Healing and Health Promotion for Marginalized Youth”
Sean McPherson, “How do you teach hip-hop the same way you learned it?”
Dr. William M. Patterson, “IPOWERED: Higher Ed Remixed To Do Some Good in the ‘hood”
Dr. Sarah Hentges, “Rasquachismo: A Theory, Methodology, and Pedagogy for Hip Hop Intersections”
3:10-4:40 pm
Film & Discussion: Apache Line: From Gangs to Hip Hop (CS)
Hosted by Jorge “Popmaster Fabel” Pabón with Special Guest
4:30-6:10 pm
Social Movement: Politics & Revolution (PS)
Respondent: Steve Netcoh
Naomi Elizabeth Bragin, “Techniques for Black (Male) Re/Dress: Re-routing the Rebirth of Waacking/Punkin’”
Dr. Rosemarie A. Roberts, “Contained Bodies: Hip Hop Dance as Enactments of Social Justice”
Ginger Jacobson, “Hip Hop Culture and the Environmental Justice Movement: An Intersection in the Crossroads of Social Justice”
Dr. Nitasha Sharma, “Bringing Global Revolution into the Mix: Hip Hop’s Commentary on the Middle East Revolutions”
Hip-Hop Culture and Youth in the Era of Neoliberal Globalization: Pedagogical Sites for Hope, Resistance and Transformation (SCA)
Moderator: Brad J. Porfilio-Lewis
Dr. Julie Gorlewski, “Indigenous Hip-Hop Pedagogues and the Beat Nation: Youth Promoting Critical Citizenship and Social Transformation”
Dr. Johan Söderman, “Hip-Hop and Folkbildning: A Voice for Marginalized Youth in Sweden”
Crystal Leigh Endsley & Marla Jaksch, “The Troubadour: K’naan, East African Hip Hop, and Social Justice”
Brad J. Porfilio-Lewis, “French Hip-Hop and Critical Pedagogy: Challenging the Oppression in and beyond the Banlieue”
4:50-6:10 pm
Artist’s Talk (CS)
Featuring: iona rozeal brown & Carlos “Mare139” Rodriguez
6:15-7:30 pm
Return to the 36 Chambers: Wu-Tang Across the Eras (CS)
Moderator: Dr. James Ford
Dr. James Ford, “An Ode to the Raw”
Dr. Andre Myers, “A Story from the Real: Ghostface Killa and Lacanian Polyphony”
Dr. David Bering-Porter, “Virtuosity of the Wu: Navigating the Aesthetics of Networks”
Hip-Hop Feminism & Cultural Arts Direct Action: An Interactive Workshop on Radical Performance Practices & Approaches (SCA)
With Kelly Thomas & Ebony Golden
7:40-8:00 pm
Closing Remarks with TBD (PS)
8:00-11:00 pm
Closing Reception with Open Wine Bar (PS)
PS = Performance Studies, 721 Broadway, 6th Fl. Rm. 612
CS = Cinema Studies, 721 Broadway, 6th Fl. Michelson Theater
SCA = Dept. of Social & Cultural Analysis, 20 Cooper Square, 4th Fl.