Call for Papers:
From “Keepin’ It Real to Keepin’ it Right”: Hip-Hop, Representation, and Epistemology
We encourage submissions that explore the generational and geographic impact on hip-hop epistemologies, knowledge formations, and interpretations of such formations. Old school/new school (for one example, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rVup66StNo), East Coast/West Coast (for another, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvL44DxNjp), conscious/gangsta, mainstream/underground, even male/female—are but a few among a wide variety of dichotomous classifications that attempt to order and make sense of hip-hop historiography, products, output, cultural divides, conversion narratives, meaning-making and recurring social ills (e.g., homophobia, misogyny, patriarchy, among other domains). This year, we invite papers that engage various hip-hop epistemologies with attention to their construction through metaphoric and material “shout outs” to space, time, and other taxonomies. What impact do classifications like “East Coast/West Coast” “god/slave” “real/fake” or “sacred/profane” have on the epistemological and hermeneutic parameters and possibilities of what and how hip-hop and religion is studied? How do universalizing, homogenous narratives about “hip-hop” emerge from local, specific cultural products grounded within a specific space and a time? And how are scholars and artists—whether through representing one’s city, country, university, affinity, discipline or methodology—impacted by the weight of time and space shaping what we know about Hip Hop(s) and the academic engagement with it? These are but some of the questions we seek to address as we engage hip-hop epistemologies.
We also seek submissions exploring indigenous hip-hops and the manner in which questions of affinity, appropriation, and/or appreciation become troped and understood in the ensuing cultural battle for/over identity, authenticity, etc. (for a possible cosponsored papers session with the Indigenous Religious Traditions Group).
We also plan to cosponsor a prearranged session with the Religion and Popular Culture Group.
We encourage submissions that explore the generational and geographic impact on hip-hop epistemologies, knowledge formations, and interpretations of such formations. Old school/new school (for one example, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rVup66StNo), East Coast/West Coast (for another, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvL44DxNjp), conscious/gangsta, mainstream/underground, even male/female—are but a few among a wide variety of dichotomous classifications that attempt to order and make sense of hip-hop historiography, products, output, cultural divides, conversion narratives, meaning-making and recurring social ills (e.g., homophobia, misogyny, patriarchy, among other domains). This year, we invite papers that engage various hip-hop epistemologies with attention to their construction through metaphoric and material “shout outs” to space, time, and other taxonomies. What impact do classifications like “East Coast/West Coast” “god/slave” “real/fake” or “sacred/profane” have on the epistemological and hermeneutic parameters and possibilities of what and how hip-hop and religion is studied? How do universalizing, homogenous narratives about “hip-hop” emerge from local, specific cultural products grounded within a specific space and a time? And how are scholars and artists—whether through representing one’s city, country, university, affinity, discipline or methodology—impacted by the weight of time and space shaping what we know about Hip Hop(s) and the academic engagement with it? These are but some of the questions we seek to address as we engage hip-hop epistemologies.
We also seek submissions exploring indigenous hip-hops and the manner in which questions of affinity, appropriation, and/or appreciation become troped and understood in the ensuing cultural battle for/over identity, authenticity, etc. (for a possible cosponsored papers session with the Indigenous Religious Traditions Group).
We also plan to cosponsor a prearranged session with the Religion and Popular Culture Group.
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