Opening Reception.
Where: Reser Loge
Oregon State music instructor Ryan Biesack plays famous hip-hop drum beats as guests arrive.
Welcome from College of Liberal Arts.
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Sounding Race in Hip Hop:
Loren Kajikawa of the department of musicology and ethnomusicology at the University of Oregon, with an introduction by Oregon State's popular music prgram director Dana Reason.
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By Oregon State music technology instructors Mike Gamble and Shawn Trail, and graffiti artists Kujorock and Kangokid.
Where: Reser Stadium, Ground Floor
Many Mics:
Morning Panel with Mina Carson of Oregon State's School of History, Philosophy and Religion, and others.
Chair: Mina Carson
Salman Rana:
"V-Nasty and the N-Word Norm: Critical Legal Pluralism in Hip Hop Culture"
(Faculty of Law, McGill University).
Sean Peterson:
“Hip-Hop Without a DJ”: Authenticating The Roots in an Era of Sample-Based Hegemony.
(School of Music, University of Oregon).
S. Alexander Reed:
“Who Was Allowed to Rap in the 1980s?: Advertising, Parody, and the Whitewashing of Hip-Hop”
(School of Music, Ithaca College).
Felicia Miyakawa:
"Canons, Digital Genealogies, and the Legacy of the RZA’s “Motherless Child”
(Ph.D Independent Scholar).
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Conversation with legendary rap artist MC Lyte with Bob Santelli, executive director of the GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles.
Where: Club Level.
Chair: Robert Thompson
Niel Scobie:
“The Number One Set and Sound: Exploring Reggae Performative Techniques in the Music of KRS-One and Boogie Down Productions”
(School for Studies in Art and Culture: Music, Carleton University).
Sarah Hentges:
"Teaching Interdisciplinary Hip Hop: Race, Class, Gender, Culture and Movements.
(American Studies, University of Main, Augusta).
Warrick Moses:
"Blackface Is, Blackface Ain't: Examining Gestures of Appropriation by White South African Rap Group Die Antwoord ("The Answer")
(African and African American Studies, Harvard).
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Talk by Zapotec hip-hop artist, translated from Spanish by Lynn Stephen
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Break For Dinner
Where: Reser Club
