February 9, 2023
9:30- 9:50am – (Auditorium) – Welcome: Dr. Jonathan I. Gayles, Chair
9:50- 10am- (Auditorium) – Introduction of speakers: Dr. Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey
10:00-11am- (Auditorium) – Opening Plenary: Rap on Trial- Drs. Erik Nielson and Andrea Dennis
Session 1A 11:10-12:25- (Authors’ and Writers’ Lounge)– BEYOND THE BEAT: HIP HOP AND THE POLITICS OF EXPRESSION
“I am Home, I am French” – Notions of Be/Longing in Afro-French Rapper Black M’s Music
Armin Langer, University of Florida
Shake A Little Ass: The Erotic Pole in Queer Rap Music Videos
Gabriela Ramos Tavárez , Georgia State University
Beyond the Biblical Text: Black Preachers Use of Hip Hop Culture to Convey Messages of Social Justice in America
David Bullock, Georgia State University
Dancing Thru Déjà Vu”
Gail McFarland, Georgia State University
Session 1B 11:05-12:30- (Auditorium) BEYOND THE BEAT: HIP HOP AND THE POLITICS OF EXPRESSION
The Art and Business of Sampling in Hip-Hop
Booker Edwards, Georgia State University
Lunch on your own: 12:30-1:30
Session 2A 1:40- 2:50 pm – (Auditorium) SURVEILLING CULTURE: THE POLICING OF HIP HOP
“All Eyes on Me”: Hip Hop, Surveillance, and Discipline
Tabia Shawel, University of California, Los Angeles
Bad Raputation: The Demonization of Hip Hop Music and Culture (And What It Means For Humanity)
Manny Faces, The Center for Hip-Hop Advocacy
Black Media and Black Youth Political Engagement
Ananda Collins, Syracuse University
Session 2B 1:40- 2:50 pm (Authors’ and Writers’ Lounge) BEYOND THE BEAT: HIP HOP AND COMMUNITY ACTIVISM
Using Hip-Hop in the Black Man Lab
Marty Monegain, Black Man Lab Foundation
Session 3A 3:00-4:10pm (Auditorium) BEYOND THE BEAT: POLITICAL ACTIVISM AND HIP HOP
Song Cry: Rap Lyrics as a Cry to the Injustices of Racism in Law Enforcement and Systematic Poverty
Brian Knowles, Power Builder Curriculum and Pedagogies
“Out for Presidents to Represent Me”: Hip Hop, the Breakfast Club, and the 2020 Presidential Elections
Tabia Shawel, University of California, Los Angeles
Trap Music Aestheticism: Trapped in the World
Shanbrae McFarland, The Ohio State University
Star Power: Views on Celebrity Activism
Tori-Marie Palmer, Georgia State University
Session 3B 3:00- 4:10 pm (Authors’ and Writers’ Lounge) BEYOND THE BEAT:
Black Graffiti Writers: The Contribution of African American Artists in the Global Graffiti Phenomenon
Antar K. Fierce
Closing- 4:15-4:20