Old in the Game: Age and Aging in Hip-Hop

Old in the Game:
Age and Aging in Hip-Hop
17. März 2015, 17:00 – 18:30 Uhr, SR 35.K2,
Merangasse 18/KG, 8010 Graz
Murray Forman,
Associate
Professor
Old in the Game: Age and Aging in Hip-Hop
While hip-hop is commonly associated in many mainstream contexts with
youth practices and tastes, it has been a long time indeed since it could easily
be defined as a facet of youth culture; generational turbulence abounds within
contemporary hip-hop. Professor Forman critically examines the ways in
which the past (as lore, tradition, and legacy) is constructed and understood
in contemporary hip-hop and illuminates the manner in which individuals
of different ages interact with one another according to multiple factors
relating to experience and familiarity, rules, laws, and wider cultural norms
as well as established hip-hop conventions. By focusing on an alternative
cartography of age and aging he offers new perspectives on the character
and representation of hip-hop elderscapes.
Murray Forman, Associate Professor, Media and Screen
Studies, Northeastern University, USA
Murray Forman studies media and culture with a primary focus
on popular music. For over twenty years he has engaged in
research about hip-hop culture, contributing to the emerging
field of hip-hop studies.
Die 7. fakultät, das Zentrum für
Gesellschaft, Wissen und Kommunikation an der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, vernetzt
Forschung und Wissenschaft mit
einer breiten Öffentlichkeit.
Das Zentrum für Inter-Amerikanische Studien ist eine Forschungseinrichtung im regionalen Schwerpunktbereich der
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
(Nord-, Mittel- und Südamerika).
He is author of The ‘Hood Comes First: Race, Space and Place in Rap and
Hip-Hop (Wesleyan University Press, 2002) and Co-editor (with Mark Anthony
Neal) of That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (Routledge, 1st edition
2004; 2nd edition, 2012). His most recent book is One Night on
TV is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early
http://interamerikanistik.uni-graz.at
Television (Duke University Press, 2012).
[email protected] | 0316/ 380 8213
Der Eintritt ist frei!
Professor Forman is an inaugural recipient of the Nasir Jones
Hip-Hop Fellowship at the Hip-Hop Archive, the Hutchins Center
Der Vortrag ist in englischer Sprache!
for African and African American Research, Harvard University
(2014-2015).
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