Western Europe (Bel, Fr, Ire, NL, UK)

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):

France

Contact:

Séverin Guillard, Karim Hammou

Activists and Scholars (Selection):

More scholars : see the participants’ list to the 2017 HH symposium

Publications and Links:

Ireland

Contact:

Ireland: J. Griffith Rollefson, University College Cork

Activists and Scholars (Selection):

ARTISTS AND COMPANIES (Selection):

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):

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.

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