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J. Griffith Rollefson
J. Griffith Rollefson is professor of music at University College Cork (UCC), National University of Ireland and has served on the faculties of music at the University of Cambridge and at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also served as UC Chancellor’s Public Scholar. Rollefson is principal investigator of the ERC research initiative CIPHER: Hip Hop Interpellation, which is developing new digital/ethnographic methods to map hip hop knowledge flows on six continents (2019–24). He is founding co-editor (with University of Cape Town’s Adam Haupt) of the journal Global Hip Hop Studies. His first book, Flip the Script: European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality (University of Chicago Press, 2017), won the Society for Ethnomusicology’s 2019 Ruth Stone Book Award and his second book, Critical Excess: Watch the Throne and the New Gilded Age, about Jay-Z, Kanye West, Trump and the end of capitalism was published by University of Michigan Press in 2021. For more information on Griff’s work, please visit
Contact: University College Cork, College Rd, Cork, Ireland.