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Global Hip-Hop Studies 1.1 is out now
Friday, July 24, 2020

Global Hip-Hop Studies 1.1 is out now

Intellect is thrilled to announce that Global Hip-Hop Studies 1.1 is out now! 

 

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Aims and Scope

 

Global Hip Hop Studies (GHHS) is a peer-reviewed, rigorous and community-responsive academic journal that publishes research on contemporary as well as historical issues and debates surrounding hip hop music and culture around the world, twice annually.

 

Issue 1.1

 

Editorial

 

Enter the cipher: Welcome to GHHS

ADAM HAUPT AND J. GRIFFITH ROLLEFSON 

 

Show & Prove

 

Shop talk: The influence of hip hop on Filipino–American barbers in San Diego

CHRISTOPHER VITO

 

Articles

 

Ciphers, ‘hoods and digital DIY studios in India: Negotiating aspirational individuality and hip hop collectivity 

ETHIRAJ GABRIEL DATTATREYAN AND JASPAL NAVEEL SINGH

 

City Girls, hot girls and the reimagining of Black women in hip hop and digital spaces

KYESHA JENNINGS

 

Growing up in hip hop: The expression of self in hypermasculine cultures 

DAVE HOOK

 

The impossibility of being Drake: Or, what it means to be a successful (Black) Canadian rapper

ALEXANDRA BOUTROS

 

‘Wot do u call it? Doof doof’: Articulations of glocality in Australian grime music 

ALEX DE LACEY

 

In the Cipher

 

‘We start imitating then we innovate’: Ruminations on Indian hip hop with Smokey the Ghost

ELLOIT CARDOZO 

 

Dive in the Archive

 

The Cornell Hip Hop Collection: An example of an archival repository 

KATHERINE A. REAGAN 

 

Book Reviews

 

Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World, Mark Katz (2019) 

MURRAY FORMAN

 

Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art, Jeffrey Ian Ross (ed.) (2016) 

SINA A. NITZSCHE

 

Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics, and Guilt in America, Erik Nielson and Andrea L. Dennis (2019)

SALMAN A. RANA

 

Sounding Race in Rap Songs, Loren Kajikawa (2015) 

TAMAR FABER 

 

Media & Event Reviews

 

A love interrupted: A Tribe Called Quest’s resilient path of rhythm 

JAMES MCNALLY

 

Sonic sage in Little Africa: A report from Tulsa 

REGINA N. BRADLEY

 

Youngsta’s debut album offers a no-holds-barred account of life for marginalized communities in Cape Town 3T (Things Take Time), YoungstaCPT (2019), Y?Gen Records, Cape Town, South Africa 

WARRICK MOSES