Hip-Hop as Sacred Medicine?

Hip Hop Block
Art by Chetna Mehta @mosaiceye

"Hip-Hop as Sacred Medicine?: Thoughts on Boujee Natives, Indigenous Rap Music, and NdN Popular Culture"
A talk听by Kyle Mays, University of California, Los Angeles

Indigenous rap music remains a voice for Indigenous millennials and generation zers. But what are the limits of this mode of expression? 听This talk听concerns the pitfalls and possibilities of Indigenous Hip-Hop as a form of NdN popular culture. Using lyrics and videos, and considering the current state of affairs, this talk offers thoughts on the state of Indigenous Hip-Hop and where it might be going in the future.听

This presentation is part of 鈥,鈥 a series of events in March that explore the music, politics, performance, and pedagogy of Hip-Hop.

The event took place on Wednesday, March 3rd听at 6:00 MST online. 听The event recording is presented below.

[video:https://youtu.be/APKe7qvn2CM]

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Kyle Mays
(he/him), Ph.D., is an Black and Saginaw Chippewa scholar of Afro-Indigenous Studies, urban studies, and Indigenous popular culture. He is an assistant professor in the Department of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and the Department of History at UCLA. He is the author of听Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America听(SUNY Press, 2018), and the forthcoming,听An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States听(Beacon Press, November 2021) and听City of Dispossessions: African Americans, Indigenous Peoples, and the Creation of Modern Detroit听(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). He has written for numerous public venues including听The Washington Post听and the iconic Hip Hop magazine,听The Source.听

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