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Sunday, March 25 • 2:15pm - 3:45pm
“Beat Street”: New York City Hip-Hop

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Patrick Rivers, “Rumble in the Concrete Jungle: Beat Battles in NYC and Their Impact on Hip-Hop Production”

Shanté Paradigm Smalls, “‘Voices Carry’: Queer Dissonance and the Travel of NYC 1980s Hip-Hop Sound”

Chris Tabron, “‘Boom It in Ya Jeep’: Low-end Theories of Black Aurality in 90’s NYC Hip-Hop”

Moderator: Oliver Wang

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Patrick Rivers

Patrick Rivers is a doctoral student in ethnomusicology at The Graduate Center, CUNY completing a dissertation on hip-hop production entitled The Mad Science of Hip-Hop: History, Technology, and Poetics of Hip-Hop’s Music. He is also a contributor to WNYC’s music talk show Soundcheck.   Abstract:"Rumble... Read More →
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Shante Paradigm Smalls

Shanté Paradigm Smalls is the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow/Visiting Assistant Professor in English at Davidson College. She is working on her book Hip Hop Heresies: New York City’s Queer Interraciality, 1975-2005. Smalls is a member of hip-hop group, B.Q.E., and starred... Read More →
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Chris Tabron

Chris Tabron is a record producer and audio engineer, as well as the founder of The Axis Collective. He has worked with a wide array of artists including Jason Mraz, Robin Thicke, Death Cab for Cutie, Mike Posner, Japanese Voyeurs, and Gordon Voidwell. A Ph.D. candidate at New York... Read More →
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Oliver Wang

Professor of Sociology, CSU-Long Beach
Associate Producer, Pop Conference 2024Oliver Wang is a professor of sociology at CSU-Long Beach and the author of Legions of Boom: Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews of the San Francisco Bay Area (Duke Univ. Press, 2015). He is a founding member of the Pop Conference Executive Committee... Read More →

Sunday March 25, 2012 2:15pm - 3:45pm EDT
NYU’s Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for University Life (KC) 60 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012
  804/805 KC

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