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Dr Dave Hook's Recognition (17)

Guest lecture on hip-hop, creative practice and academia
2022 - 2022

Description A guest lecture for research students on hip-hop and creative practice as research. Addressing creative practice as research outputs, creativity in academic work and links between practice and scholarship.
Affiliated Organisations New Organisation
Research Areas Music
Research Centres/Groups Applied Music Research Centre
Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

External Examiner - PhD - Michail Excharos (aka Stereo Mike), University of West London
2022 - 2022

Description External Examiner - PhD - Michail Excharos (aka Stereo Mike), 'Reimagining the ‘phonographic’ in sample-based hip-hop production: Making records within records', University of West London
Affiliated Organisations The University of West London
Research Areas Music

Challenging, interpreting and remaking youth culture(s) A short discussion about Scottish culture, hip-hop culture and the ways that local and global culture(s) interact.
2021 - 2021

Description In this talk, I will discuss my own experiences of making and being involved in hip-hop in Scotland. This provides opportunities to ask questions about people’s preconceptions about both hip-hop culture and Scottish culture, examining youth stereotypes in both, and challenging ideas that elements of each may be incompatible. Using a combination of autoethnography, poetic analysis and cultural studies, evidence emerges demonstrating the combining of local culture(s), global culture(s) and the individual idiosyncratic, hybridising to create something new that can exist across cultural domains.
Affiliated Organisations University College London
Research Areas Music
Research Centres/Groups Applied Music Research Centre
Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

Is Rakim the most influential poet of the 20th Century? - Push the Boat Out International Poetry Festival
2021 - 2021

Description There are those would argue that Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot were the most influential poets of the last century, revolutionising and freeing up the art of verse for all who came after them. But what about those whose poetry is written primarily to be performed, especially with music? Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for “having created new poetic expression within the great American song tradition”. And then there’s the rapper Rakim, the God MC, whose complex and intricately woven lines, lyrical flow, and patterned rhyme schemes transformed his art form, directly influencing all who came in his wake, helping turn hip hop into the most commercially successful form of poetry on the planet.
Research Areas Music
Research Centres/Groups Applied Music Research Centre
Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

Scottish Hip-Hop? Challenging, interpreting and remaking youth culture(s) - UCL, Centre for Global Youth
2021 - 2021

Description In this talk, I discuss my own experiences of making and being involved in hip-hop in Scotland. This provides opportunities to ask questions about people’s preconceptions about both hip-hop culture and Scottish culture, examining youth stereotypes in both, and challenging ideas that elements of each may be incompatible. Using a combination of autoethnography, poetic analysis and cultural studies, evidence emerges demonstrating the combining of local culture(s), global culture(s) and the individual idiosyncratic, hybridising to create something new that can exist across cultural domains.
Affiliated Organisations University College London
Research Areas Music
Research Centres/Groups Applied Music Research Centre
Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

External Examiner - PhD - Adam de Paor-Evans, University of Central Lancashire
2021 - 2021

Description External Examiner for Adam de Paor-Evans' PhD: The Evolution of the Micro-ecologies and Micro-economies of Regional-rural Hip-hop in Devon, UK, 1983-1993
Affiliated Organisations University of Central Lancashire
Research Areas Music

Artist Residency 2020 - Cryptic art house
2020 - 2020

Description Cryptic’s international artist residency programme provides professional development time and support for musicians and digital artists to focus exclusively upon their own practice, whilst engaging with other artists and receiving peer-to-peer learning. The emphasis of this residency programme is on research and the development of existing or new work and is not geared towards a final presentation.
Research Areas Music
Research Themes Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups Applied Music Research Centre
Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
URL https://covepark.org/residencies/cryptic-residency-2020/

External Examiner: BSc(Hons) Audio Technology, Glasgow Caledonian University
2020

A Scots Gaitherin – a Scots language event, hosted by Creative Scotland, the Scottish Government and Education Scotland
2019 - 2019

External Advisor: Periodic Programme Review for BA(Hons) Music, University of Salford
2018 - 2018

External Advisor for period course review: BSc Audio Engineering & Production, BA Music Production and BSc Game & Interactive Audio, Futureworks School of Media, Manchester
2017 - 2017

Conference Organiser: EMEA Avid Learning Partner Summit 2017
2017 - 2017

Description A one-day conference for Avid Learning Partners and Avid Certified Instructors from all over the EMEA Region.

Festival Organiser: Where Are They Now? Festival for Hull City of Culture 2017
2016 - 2017

Description A 3-day festival of counter-culture. Featuring a full day of hip-hop programming, including performances, film, Q&A, workshops, live graffiti , breakdancing and rap battles.

Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy
2012