Representing Hip Hop Histories, Politics and Practices in Australia

Sudiipta Dowsett is a Research Associate in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of New South Wales, Australia.Lucas Marie is the Deputy Director for Culture, at the Centre for Defence Leadership & Ethics (CDLE), Australian Defence College, Canberra.Dianne Rodger is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia.Grant Leigh Saunders is a Biripi First Nations independent creative researcher, award-winning documentary filmmaker and Regional Manager of Joint Colleges Training Services (NSW/ACT).

• Introduction: Representing Hip Hop in Australia Section 1: Hip Hop Histories, Eras and Evolutions 1. Graffiti and Hip Hop in Australia: An Interview with Matthew MISTERY Peet 2. From Gen X to Gen Y: Hip-Hop Life-Stories in Australia 3. Revisiting Nationalism and Multiculturalism in So-called Australian Hip Hop Section 2: Hip Hop Activism and Politics 4. Hip Hop, Activism and Other Stories (Herstory) 5. ‘Hip Hop Crim’ - A Discourse Analysis of Conscious First Nations Hip Hop Contesting Australia's Criminal Justice System 6. We Need to Infiltrate Those Spaces: Space-Reclaiming through Counternarratives in First Nations Hip-Hop in Sydney 7. ‘Hip-Hop Fam’ or a Larrikin Brand? Urthboy and the Bind of the Conscious MC Section 3: Hip Hop Performance Practices and Place 8. Hip Hop Dance Jams and Cyphers 9. Pirlapakarnu Cypher: Beyond Representing Place to Warlpiri Embodiments of Country in Milpirri Hip Hop 10. ‘Who is this Imposter?’: Women in Australian Underground Hip Hop 11. “In a Good Way There’s No BEEF, but the Bad Thing is There’s No BEEF”: Tensions and Changing Cultural Politics in Sydney’s Breaking Scene.

“Hip Hop aesthetics, politics, and education in Australia come alive in this sweeping survey of practices, methods, and voices, including First Nations and other marginalised artists and scholars. An inspired, vital contribution to the literature!”-Jeff Chang, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation“An antidote to one-size-fits-all descriptions of Hip Hop in Australia. It’s refreshing, real, challenging and inspiring. Academics and Hip Hoppers share stories from across this great southern land, never scared to ask tough questions, never shying away from the richness and complexity of those who love, live and are Hip Hop.”-Morganics (MetaBass'n'Breath) veteran Australian Hip Hop artist.“Much more than a set of compelling essays about Australian Hip Hop. Representing Hip Hop Histories, Politics and Practices in Australia speaks with insight and authority to both the emergence and development of a discrete field of studies, and to urgent contemporary debates about what it is to be in, and to make culture in, Australia.”-Ian Maxwell, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Sydney."Australian Hip Hop is grossly undervalued and marginalised. There is little quality academic research about it. This book brings together practitioners and academics in a wide-ranging and incisive exploration of Australian Hip Hop at the borders of Indigenous and settler culture. It is an important step forward in discussions of Hip Hop in Australia."-Jon Stratton, Adjunct Professor, UniSA Creative, University of South Australia.