Belgium
Contact:
Axel Mudahemuka Gossiaux, Marco Martiniello, University of Liège
Activists / Scholars / Companies (Selection):
- Lezarts Urbains (association and documentation centre)
- Melodiggerz (hip-hop census, archives and events association), Sonny Mariano (collector and archivist of Belgian hip-hop heritage), exhibitions: “25 ans de disques” (1.0 and 2.0), “30 Years of Records (1990-2020)”
- Nectar MusiQ (hip-hop label), Martha Regueiro (chief editor)
- One Nation (all style feminine dance crews)
- PriZon Break RockerZ (dance crew)
- Skinfama (performing arts company)
- Spray Can Arts (urban arts association)
- TARMAC (cross-platform media), Thomas Duprel/Akro (hip-hop artist; editorial chief), Philippe Fourmarier-Garfinkels/Fourmi (hip-hop artist; responsible events)
- Alain Lapiower (former director of Lezarts Urbains)
- Benoît Quittelier (hip-hop artist, director at Future Art Movement, Université Libre de Bruxelles: Geography of Hip-Hop Places, Sociology of Hip-Hop)
- Didier Stiers (journalist, author)
- Fatima Zibouh (University of Liège: Art, Urban Culture and Ethnicity, W100)
Publications (Selection):
Brausch, Géraldine, « Réflexions sur l’appropriation de l’espace. Quand le street art et le rapport à la ville deviennent des enjeux du secteur socio-culturel », CDGAI – Culture en mouvement, 2014, 63 p.
Fondation Jacques Gueux, Les cultures urbaines, Charleroi, Couleur Livres, coll. « Rue des Usines », n°45, 46, 47, 2000, 176 p.
Gossiaux, Axel M.C., « Réflexions sur la pédagogie hip-hop en Belgique francophone », CDGAI – Culture en mouvement, 2018, 44 p.
Lapiower, Alain, Total respect. La génération hip-hop en Belgique, Bruxelles, Fondation Jacques Gueux – Vie Ouvrière, 1997, 288 p.
Lapiower, Alain, « Hip-hop : les enjeux de la reconnaissance », Swap Magazine, n°1, 2017, p. 38-45.
Lapiower, Alain and Van der Hoeven, Roland, « Hip Hop – DB (De Bruxelles). Le Hip Hop bruxellois : de la rue à la scène, du trottoir aux cimaises (1983-2010) », Cahiers Bruxellois – Brusselse Cahiers, Vol. L, 2018, 313-341.
Martiniello, Marco, « Rap, antiracisme et identités locales en région liégeoise », Hommes & Migrations, n° 1317-1318, 2017, p. 158-164.
Martiniello, Marco and Stangherlin, Gregor, « Ethnicité et classes sociales. La diversification de la diversité à Liège par la musique et le sport », in Brahy Rachel et Dumont Elisabeth (dir.), Dialogues sur la diversité, Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2015, p. 185-199.
Mertens, Jamina, Goedertier, Wouter, Goddeeris, Idesbald and Brabanter, (De) Dominique, « A New Floor for the Silenced? Congolese Hip-Hop in Belgium », Social Transformations, Vol. 1, n°1, 2013, p. 87-113.
Quittelier, Benoît, Les territoires du Hip-Hop à Bruxelles, marqueurs des transformations contemporaines d’un mouvement culturel populaire, PhD Thesis, 2014, 391 p.
Quittelier, Benoît, « Quelle place pour la danse hip-hop à Bruxelles ? », Bruxelles, SMart, 2015, 7 p.
Stiers Didier, Flashback : Histoire(s) de la danse hip hop en Belgique, Bruxelles/Charleroi, Lezarts Urbains/Couleur Livres, coll. « Rue des Usines », n°49, 2007, 143 p.
Projects (Selection):
- Battle of Style (dance contest)
- De Stroate (youth cultural center based on hip-hop culture)
- Exhibition: “Révolution Rap, une histoire africaine ?”
- La Belle Hip Hop (8 days festival fully dedicated to women in hip-hop)
France
Contact:
Séverin Guillard, Karim Hammou
Activists and Scholars (Selection):
- Alice Aterianus-Owanga, University of Lausanne
- Emmanuelle Carinos, Cresppa
- Séverin Guillard, University Paris Est Créteil
- Karim Hammou, CNRS: French rap history, commodification, power relationship
- Marie Sonnette, Université d’Angers / Cerlis
More scholars : see the participants’ list to the 2017 HH symposium
Publications and Links:
- Science blog Sur un son rap by K. Hammou (in French)
- Proceedings of the 2017 international symposium of French-speaking Hiphop music
- Mailing list Hip-hop in Education, Research and Culture (H-Herc)
- Madame Rap: The first French media dedicated to women and LGBT+ in hip hop
Ireland
Contact:
Ireland: J. Griffith Rollefson, University College Cork
Activists and Scholars (Selection):
- J. Griffith Rollefson, University College Cork: European Hip Hop, Postcoloniality, Afrofuturism
ARTISTS AND COMPANIES (Selection):
- Garry McCarthy, GMC Beats / Kabin Studio Cork City
- Ophelia McCabe, 0phelia MC
Publications (Selection):
Rollefson, J. Griffith. “Hip Hop Interpellation: Rethinking Autochthony and Appropriation in Irish Rap.” In Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music (Global Popular Music Series), eds. Áine Mangaoang, John O’Flynn, and Lonán Ó Briain. London: Routledge, 2020. 224-236.
Rollefson, J. Griffith. Flip the Script: European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Series, 2017. (Winner: SEM Ruth Stone Prize) https://europeanhiphop.org/. (The book’s conclusion examines Irish hip hop).
PROJECTS (Selection):
- CIPHER: Hip Hop Interpellation (2019-2024): A five-year EU-funded study of global hip hop knowledge flows housed at University College Cork, National University of Ireland
The Netherlands
Contact:
Aafje de Roest, Leiden University
Activists and Scholars (Selection):
- Bowie van Loon, journalist, HiphopInJeSmoel, NRC. In-depth Hip Hop Articles, Interviews and Album Reviews
- Jeroen van den Broek, criminologist, Erasmus University: Hip Hop, Street Culture, Social Media Culture, Drill (in collaboration with Robby Roks, Erasmus University)
- Ilja Meefout, photographer, international artists, book (pictures, art): 1,2 1,2 Portraits of Hip Hop
- Kim Dankoor, media scholar, Utrecht University: US-American Hip Hop, Atlanta, Gender, Women in Hip Hop, Media Criticism
- Massih Hutak, rapper, writer, activist, book Jij hebt ons niet ontdekt, wij waren hier altijd al
- Rajko Disseldorp, journalist, book: Hiphop in Nederland, in-depth YouTube interviews with contemporary artists
- Robby Roks, criminologist, Erasmus University: Youth, Street Culture, Gangs, Rap, Excessive Consumption
- Simon Mamahit, CultuurOost: Hip Hop Based Education, hip hop and policy making
- Soortkill, writer (SMIB Artistic Hip Hop Collective), book Smibanese Dictionary (2017) and Smibanese Dictionary 2.0 (2019)
- Steven Gilbers, linguist, University of Groningen: US-American Hip Hop, Second Dialect Acquisition in the Context of Regional African American-English Dialects and Hip Hop, East Coast and West Coast
- Aafje de Roest, literary scholar (Dutch studies), Leiden University: Contemporary Dutch Hip Hop, onderzoek naar Nederlandse hiphop (NL), Social Media, Cultural Identity, hip hop’s glocality, Hip Hop & Literature, Hip Hop and Language
Publications and Links:
De Roest, Aafje. ‘”Read some!” Hip-hop’s potential in contemporary reading culture’, Dutch Reading Foundation, 2021.
Disseldorp, Rajko. Hiphop in Nederland. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Q, 2017.
Gazzah, Miriam. Rhythms and rhymes of life. Music and identification processes of Dutch-Moroccan youth. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008.
Gilbers, Steven; Hoeksema, Nienke; De Bot, Kees; Lowie, Wander. ‘Regional Variation in West and East Coast African-American English Prosody and Rap Flows.’ In: Language and speech. 2019.
Krims, Adam. Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Roks, Robby and Jeroen van den Broek. “Cappen voor clout” – Een verkennend onderzoek naar Rotterdamse jongeren, drill en geweld in het digitale tijdperk, Erasmus University, 2020.
Van Stapele, Saul, Van Brooklyn naar Breukelen, Amsterdam: Nationaal Pop Instituut, 2002.
Waszink, Vivien, Woord! De taal van Nederhop, Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Nieuwezijds, 2013.
Institutes and platforms (selection):
United Kingdom
Contact:
England: Justin Williams, University of Bristol
Scotland: Dave Hook, Edinburgh Napier University
Activists and Scholars (Selection):
- Richard Bramwell, Loughborough University: UK HipHop, Grime, Institutionalization of HipHop
- Darren Chetty, University College London: HipHop Education, Race
- Nathan Geering, Rationale Method: HipHop, Dance, and Visual Impairment
- Tom Hines, AudioActive: Rap Music Production, Hip-Hop-based Education
- Adam de Paor-Evans, University of Central Lancashire: Science Fiction, Afrofuturism, Space, Graffiti
- Eithne Quinn, University of Manchester: Gangsta Rap, Rap in Criminal Trials
- J. Griffith Rollefson, University College Cork: European HipHop, PostColoniality, Afrofuturism
- Patrick Turner, Bath Spa University: Race, Performance, HipHop Education
- Justin Williams, University of Bristol: UK HipHop in the 21st Century
- Gemma Connell, The University of Surrey: representations of gender violence in British Hip Hop dance theatre
ARTISTS AND COMPANIES (Selection):
- The Artifact Dance Company (Operating from Montrose, Scotland from 2015-2018, and then in Newport, South Wales from 2018-2019. Now closed, but archive still available on website).
- Ladies of Rage, Cardiff, Wales
- Avant Cymru, Rhondda, Wales
- Gemma Connell – Independent Choreographer, Newport, Wales
Publications (Selection):
Bramwell, Richard. UK Hip-Hop, Grime and the City: The Aesthetics and Ethics of London’s Rap Scenes. London: Routledge, 2015.
Turner, Patrick. Hip Hop Versus Rap: The Politics of Droppin’ Knowledge. London: Routledge, 2017.
Connell, Gemma. Pass the Mic: The therapeutic potential of Hip-Hop Education in Dance and Spoken Word. In: #HipHopEd The Compilation on Hip-Hop Education Volume 3: Hip-Hop as Education and Knowledge of Self. Leiden: Brill Sense, Forthcoming in 2020.
PROJECTS (Selection):
- Rooting Hip Hop Theatre in Wales
- Open Art Surgery in Treorchy, Wales (2019)
- Open Art Surgery in Wrexham, Wales (2020)
- Hip Hop Theatre Classes for 8-12 year olds at Dance Blast, Abergavenny, Wales
- Music Papers Playlists: This website features articles and playlists about UK rap, hip-hop, reggae and dancehall.