At UCR, offering a biennial conference has become a cross-campus collaborative effort, with at least 14 cosponsors for this year’s events.īringing an international community together to Riverside to learn and shape the future of hip-hop studies, is one of her greatest accomplishments, Johnson said.Īs a young, black girl growing up in San Jose, she still remembers listening to the music and watching news on television highlighting breakers in New York. One of the conference’s goals is to give exposure to community organizers and scholars developing their work, Johnson said. The topics cover everything from breaking, females and hip hop, sexuality and gender identity, incarceration, journalism, the role of technology, and millennial rap, to name a few. The conference is also sprinkled with exhibits, workshops, and performances. Throughout the three-day conference attendees will find panel discussions led by industry professionals, faculty, and undergraduates, with sessions such as “Hip-hop as counter-hegemony,” “Hip-hop and the hustle of history,” and “Black Asian solidarity in hip-hop.” This biennial conference series is interdisciplinary in practice and international in scope, Johnson said. Participants are encouraged to make reservations. Artists, practitioners, and community organizers are all welcome. Show & Prove is free and open to the community. are tapping into the ways hip-hop culture enacts its own approach to study and research. There is much more depth,” said Johnson, Show & Prove founder and chair, and assistant professor in critical dance studies within UCR’s Department of Dance. “There is no one thing that is ‘hip-hop.’ Whatever is the popular assumption that hip-hop is, it goes beyond that. 7-9, the University of California, Riverside’s Department of Dance will host the fourth biennial Show & Prove Hip Hop Studies Conference at the Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts in downtown Riverside. Several years later, Johnson created her own space to showcase and discuss the future of hip-hop studies. When Imani Kai Johnson was in graduate school, she began thinking about what hip-hop is – and where it’s going.
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