Content tagged "hip-hop"
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Ian Condry, “Sound, Learning and Democracy: The Curvature of Social Space-Time through Japanese Music, from Underground Techno to Pop Idols”
Professor Ian Condry explores contemporary Japanese music, with a comparison of diverse examples, such as female Japanese rappers, underground techno festivals, the virtual idol Hatsune Miku, and the pop idol group AKB48.
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Meredith Schweig and Rebecca Dirksen: “Taiwanese Rap and Haitian Music and Reconstruction”
In this presentation, Meredith Schweig explores the gender politics and practices of the Taiwan rap scene.
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Podcast: Elisa Kreisinger, “Political Remix Video: A Participatory Post-Modern Critique of Popular Culture”
Remixers are on the front lines of the battle between new media technologies and impeding copyright laws that threaten to obstruct the public discursive space for critiquing popular culture.
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Ian Condry at Hip-Hop Worldwide: More Than a Nation
“Among the events popping off at Harvard’s newly interactive archive: a week-long global hip-hop film festival, a Hip-Hop Worldwide panel featuring renowned anthropologist Ian Condry.”
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Ian Condry Examines Japan’s Hip Hop
Hip Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization is the realization of many years of work for Ian Condry, an associate professor of Japanese cultural studies in MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures and a CMS faculty affiliate.
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Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization
Ian Condry interprets Japan’s hip-hop scene, how a music and culture that originated halfway around the world is appropriated and remade.
