Associate Professor Ian Maxwell, author of the first Hip Hop book out of Australia, Phat Beats, Dope Rhymes: Hip Hop Down Unda Comin’ Upper (Wesleyan University Press, 2003) will moderate a panel discussion with the editors Biripi award winning filmmaker and Hip Hop scholar Dr Grant Leigh Saunders, anthropologist Dr Dianne Rodger (University of Adelaide), anthropologist and BBoy Dr Lucas Marie (Australian Defence College) and anthropologist Dr Sudiipta Dowsett (BARC, UNSW Art & Design).
Bringing together both scholarly and practitioner perspectives, across 11 chapters, contributors explore the diversity of identities, communities, practices, and expressions that make-up Hip Hop in Australia, including Emceeing/ music production, Graffiti and Breaking. With chapters by: Kurt Iveson, Dianne Rodger, Jason Ng, Izzy Brown, Grant Leigh Saunders, Charlotte Schuitenmaker, Annalise Friend, Lucas Marie (with J Yoon), Sudiipta Dowsett, Wanta Jampijinpa Pawu, Gemma Clendining, and Rachael Gunn.
The book showcases how Hip Hop is understood and lived across numerous settings in Australia, making important contributions to global Hip Hop studies and scholarship in related fields such as popular music, youth culture and First Nations Studies.
Come hear, meet and ask questions to the panel, get yourself a discounted paperback copy and help celebrate this milestone in Australian Hip Hop history to the soundtrack provided by DJ Juzzlikedat.
Reviews of the book:
“Hip Hop aesthetics, politics, and education in Australia come alive in this sweeping survey of practices, methods, and voices, including First Nations and other marginalised artists and scholars. An inspired, vital contribution to the literature!”
- Jeff Chang, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
"Australian Hip Hop is grossly undervalued and marginalised. There is little quality academic research about it. This book brings together practitioners and academics in a wide-ranging and incisive exploration of Australian Hip Hop at the borders of Indigenous and settler culture. It is an important step forward in discussions of Hip Hop in Australia."
- Jon Stratton, Adjunct Professor, UniSA Creative, University of South Australia.
A word on the soundtrack for the night
DJ Juzzlikedat AKA JuzzOne was a keen collector of wax at 14 years old. Witnessing the evolution of Hip Hop, his passion for Funk and Jazz as a DJ inspired him to travel through the many era's of black music from the late 60's to more recent digital sounds. As a beat maker/producer he released an EP called “Let’s ride” with Mark Del mar, features on Edseven's single released by Inner Tribe Records, and has released music on Spotify. He also plays bass and drums for the Blu Collective (Blu Collective Records). JuzzOne has been spinning records in Sydney for over 20 years. During this time he has supported international artists such as Roy Ayers, Omar, Stro Elliot, John Morales, Natasha Diggs, Sarah Love, Nickodemus, Oddisee, Doris, DJ Krush to name a few. He also had a weekly show mixing an hour of pure afro grooves on Skid Row Radio called "The Warm Up Show.
