RIP RapMoz icon, Azagaia

RIP RapMoz icon, Azagaia

The name of our recently departed brother, the Mozambican MC, Azagaia, means “spear” — a reference to his anticolonial cultural politics and his “words as weapons” artistic ethos.  CIPHER Team member, Janne Rantala, describes his views in...
New publication in Ethnomusicology

New publication in Ethnomusicology

The CIPHER Team’s article, “Networking Global Hip Hop Knowledges: The CIPHER Method,” was just published in Ethnomusicology the journal of the The Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM). Thanks to our amazing team of Ophelia McCabe, Warrick Moses, Jason...