'Kids rock Akademiks but they're not academic': hip-hop, academia and the liminal spaces between

Hook, Dave

Abstract

Presenting a ra/p/aper, demonstrating and arguing that hip-hop practice is hip-hop studies. Building on AD Carson’s artist-research in the form of mixtap/e/ssays (Carson, 2020), the work asserts that rap is research, art is scholarship, rather than research being a process that has to happen after creative practice. Through this process, issues are raised and explored regarding cultural legitimacy, hip-hop culture vs academic culture, and access to cultural spaces, through the creative output itself.

Citation

Hook, D. (2022, January). 'Kids rock Akademiks but they're not academic': hip-hop, academia and the liminal spaces between. Paper presented at PANTHEON: Hip-Hop’s Global Pathways to Cultural “Legitimacy” (European Hip-Hop Studies Network Meeting), Paris, France

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (unpublished)
• Conference Name: PANTHEON: Hip-Hop’s Global Pathways to Cultural “Legitimacy” (European Hip-Hop Studies Network Meeting)
• Conference Location: Paris, France
• Start Date: Jan 25, 2022
• End Date: Jan 27, 2022
• Deposit Date: Mar 29, 2022
• Keywords: hip-hop, rap, culture studies
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2858995