Representing Hip Hop Histories, Politics and Practices in Australia

Sudiipta Dowsett is a Research Associate in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Lucas Maris is the Deputy Director for Culture, at the Centre for Defence Leadership & Ethics (CDLE), at the Australian Defence College, Canberra. Dianne Roger is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Grant Leigh Saunders is a Biripi First Nations independent researcher, Aboriginal studies lecturer and award-winning filmmaker.

Introduction: Representing Hip Hop in Australia Section 1: Hip Hop Histories, Eras and Evolutions 1. Graffiti and Hip Hop in Australia: An Interview with Matthew MISTERY Peet 2. From Gen X to Gen Y: Hip-Hop Life-Stories in Australia 3. Revisiting Nationalism and Multiculturalism in So-called Australian Hip-Hop Section 2: Hip Hop Activism and Politics 4. Hip-Hop, Activism and Other Stories (Herstory) 5. ‘Hip Hop Crim’ - A Discourse Analysis of Conscious First Nations Hip Hop Contesting Australia's Criminal Justice System 6. “We Need to Infiltrate Those Spaces”: Space-Reclaiming through Counternarratives in First Nations Hip-Hop in Sydney 7. ‘Hip-Hop Fam’ or a Larrikin Brand? Urthboy and the Bind of the Conscious MC Section 3: Hip Hop Performance Practices and Place 8. Hip Hop Dance Jams and Cyphers 9. Pirlapakarnu Cypher: Beyond Representing Place to Warlpiri Embodiments of Country in Milpirri Hip Hop 10. ‘Who is this Imposter?’: Women in Australian Underground Hip Hop 11. “In a Good Way There’s No Beef, but the Bad Thing is There’s No Beef”: Tensions and Changing Cultural Politics in Sydney’s Breaking Scene.