Monday, Nov 19, 2007

Local Noise - Indigenising Hip-Hop in Australiasia

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Localnoise.net.au is a new website exploring the role between hip hop, language and local culture.

Launched last week, the site is the culmination of a three-year study looking at the indigenisation of hip-hop – that’s the way hip hop is adapted and appropriated into local environments and is used to tell the stories of everyday people.

The project, Local noise, has also been looking at the way hip hop can be used as an educational tool ‑ the way it can succeed in cutting through to marginalized groups where other education policies have failed.

Funded by the Australian Research Council and run out of the University of Technology Sydney, the site features interviews, audio, videos and papers by academics Tony Mitchell and Alistair Pennycook who headed up the project.

One of the research assistants on the project is Astrid Lorange and ahead of the website’s launch she spoke with Ellice Mol.

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