About this Event
Presented by the Afrosonic Innovation Lab and sponsored by Hart House Hip Hop Education and Black Futures.
Join Dr. Shanté Paradigm Smalls as they discuss the launch of their new book Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City.
In conversation with Dr. Mark V Campbell, Dr. Smalls will draw on their vast knowledge as a scholar, author and researcher of Black popular culture to explore and invite the audience into the queer aesthetics origins of hip hop in New York City.
Dr. Smalls is a scholar, artist, and writer whose research focuses on Black popular culture in music, film, visual art, genre fiction, and other aesthetic forms. Dr. Smalls’ first book, Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City, won the 2016 CLAGS Fellowship Award for best manuscript in LGBTQ Studies and was recently published by NYU Press in June 2022.
Smalls’s writing has appeared in QED, The Black Scholar, GL/Q, Women & Performance, Criticism, Lateral, American Behavioral Scientist, Suspect Thoughts, Syndicate Literature, and the Oxford Handbook of Queerness and Music. Dr. Smalls is currently an Associate Professor of Black Studies in the Department of English and Faculty in the Critical Race & Ethnic Studies Institute, and Founding Co-Director of the LGBTQ+ Center at St. John’s University in New York City.
Smalls has held fellowships from the University of Rochester Humanities Center, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, The Institute for Citizens & Scholars (formerly Woodrow Wilson Foundation), and the James Weldon Johnson Fellowship at Emory University. Dr. Smalls received their PhD in Performance Studies from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, their MA in Performance Studies from NYU, and their BA in English and Theatre from Smith College. They are a Series Editor of Critical Race, Indigeneity, and Relationality at Temple University Press
Mark V. Campbell is a DJ, scholar and curator. His research explores the relationships between Afrosonic innovations, hip-hop archives and notions of the human.
Dr. Campbell is currently the Principal Investigator in the SSHRC funded research project, Hip Hop Archives: The Poetics and Potentials of Knowledge Production and founder at Northside Hip-Hop Archives. Dr. Campbell is Founding Director of the Afrosonic Innovation Lab at the University of Toronto Scarborough. His recent books include the monograph AfroSonic Life (2022), the co-edited collection of essays, We Still Here: Hip Hop in North of the 49th Parallel published (in 2020) and his forthcoming co-edited collection Hip Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production with Murray Forman, due out in 2023.
Dr. Campbell is Assistant Professor of Music and Culture at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Dr. Campbell is a Research Fellow with the Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence and the Research Centre for Music, Sound and Society in Canada.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Hart House Building, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, Canada
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