So, this is a little off-topic for people purely interested in Interaction Design, but I’m posting this here anyway.  I just gave my first lecture of the Audio Culture subject I’m helping deliver at UTS namely: ‘HipHop and Indigeneity’.  In total I’ll be doing two other lectures on ‘Dubstep’ and ‘Improvisation’.  It’s been fascinating process having to really formalise my thoughts on this and present these in a single session.  The lecture itself ended up focusing on things like Rhizomatic structures, Developmental models such as ‘World Systems Theory’/’Core-Periphery’ theory and then using Jamaica and Reggae as an example of anti-hegemonic cultural dissemination in response to the forces of globalisation – before bringing it all right back to Australian Indigenous localities in the tutorials.

Anyway, if you’re interested, here is the PowerPoint presentation.  It probably doesn’t have all that much value on it’s own without the lecture itself, but hey – I may as well put it up for those who are interested:

Hip Hop and Indigeneity 04.pptx

Perhaps of most interest in this are the readings/resources I reference.  Every one of these is important and mind-blowing – in its own way:

STEGER, M. (2010) Globalization: A Very Short Introduction, New York, Sterling.

DELEUZE, G. & GUATTARI, F. (1987) A thousand plateaus:

Capitalism and schizophrenia, Burns & Oates.

Bradley, L., Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King. Penguin Books, 2000.

STAVRIAS, G. (2005) Droppin’ conscious beats and flows: Aboriginal hip hop and youth identity. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2, 44-54.

HANNERZ, U. (1989) Culture between center and periphery: Toward a macroanthropology. Ethnos, 54, 200-216.

We got more into the local forms of HipHop in the tutorials where we watched some videos and then talked about them in the terms of the theory from the lecture.  Here are two stand-out offerings from Australia’s first peoples – respek!

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0rJajbIs-o&w=560&h=315]

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEEEANl_D8Q&w=560&h=315]

Have a good weekend everybody.