by globalcipher_53ckum | Mar 30, 2021 | Publication
We’re pleased to announce the publication of How Music Empowers, a new book by CIPHER team member Dr. Steven Gamble. Steve’s research for this book, mostly undertaken prior to the CIPHER project, is impactful and important for hip hop audiences, especially...
by globalcipher_53ckum | Feb 6, 2021 | Gems
In this video 0phelia spits an acapella rap verse (‘Eagniocht and chrann’) in her native language Gaelige (Irish), demonstrating the hip-hop wisdom that can be found in nature. The captions provided in English are a loose translation of the original. ...
by globalcipher_53ckum | Jan 11, 2021 | Blog
There’s a two-part blog post now up at our associated project Digital Flows, looking at online hip-hop. In these posts Steve uses a comment scraping method to analyse how lo-fi commentary has changed – and how it hasn’t – during the quarantine/lockdown...
by globalcipher_53ckum | Dec 30, 2020 | Publication
Griff has published a new chapter in Made in Ireland (Routledge, 2020) edited by Áine Mangaoang, John O’Flynn, Lonán Ó Briain. In it, he tells a history of hip hop in Ireland and posits the “hip hop interpolation” thesis: the ways that this irreducibly Black...
by globalcipher_53ckum | Nov 27, 2020 | Gems
Bboy Alienness refocused a generation through this seminal dance text of the 2000s. Inspiring a new old school, Alienness pushed the emphasis from power moves back to movement with feeling and groove, teaching: “I can teach a chihuahua to stand on one hand but I...
