HIP HOP ECOLOGIES AND POLITICS SYMPOSIUM
Janus, Sirkkala, Kaivokatu 12, University of Turku
Thu Oct 5, 10:30-17:00
Fri Oct 6, 10:15-16:30
Key note speaker: Jeff Chang (Stanford University).
See attached program for details. Registration not required.
Throughout its history, hip hop has created spaces for engaging with social and political issues, and offered resources for creating, re-shaping, and performing local and global identities. This symposium will critically examine hip hop in its political, historical, geographic, cultural, ideological, and musical ecologies. The symposium will develop comparative analyses between Finland, the Nordic region, and the wider world, and build dialogue with international scholars.
The symposium is organized jointly by the Musicology department, the Hiphop in Finland: Genres and Generations research network, and the IIPC.
Symposium program:
THURSDAY 5 October 2017
10:30 – 10:45 Welcome
10:45 – 12:30 Hip hop pedagogies
Friederike Frost: Cypher: Space, Meaning, and Movement in Breaking
Hannah Tornesjö: Toy
Kristine Ringsager: The Contradictions of Rap as a Resource within the Danish Welfare State's Integration Project
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:15 Gender and politics
Charity Marsh: Clear Lines: Powerful and Fierce Women in Hip Hop in Canada
Natalie Koutsougera: 'The Street can't be Silenced': Women and the Underground Rap Scene in Athens
Anna-Elena Pääkkölä: Buns, Hun: On Race, Femininity, and Nicki Minaj's Butt
15:15 – 15:45 Afternoon tea & coffee
15:45 – 17:00 National and regional politics
Janne Rantala: Rappers Challenging Official Memory in Mozambique with Political Ancestors
Dragana Cvetanovic: ... And What about Politically Engaged Rap in the Post-Yugoslav Region?
FRIDAY 6 October 2017
10:15 – 11:30 Keynote (IIPC debate)
Jeff Chang: Institutionalized: The Second Global Generation of Hip-Hop Scholarship
11:30 – 12:00 Morning tea & coffee
12:00 – 13:15 Ethnomusicology
Venla Sykäri: Freestyle in the Ecology of Finnish Hip Hop: From Practical Reasons and Symbolic Value to a Distinct Genre
Susanna Välimäki: Environmentalism in Finnish Rap: An Ecomusicological Discussion
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 16:00 History, religion and spirituality
Antti-Ville Kärjä: Finnish Rap before Finnish Rap
Inka Rantakallio: Religion in Finnish Rap Music
Ibrahim Abraham: Black Magic across the Black Atlantic: A Spiritual Ecology of Hip Hop
16:00 – 16:30 Concluding discussion and future plans
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