Mark Campbell (Assistant Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Arts, Culture, and Media, UTSC; Faculty of Music, UTSG) presents "The T-Dot & the 6ix, a Riddim Science Mixtape"
Thursday, October 21 at 3:30 pm
Prof. Campbell's talk will be offered in a hybrid format. We invite graduate students to join our speaker in EJB room 130 for an in-person presentation. If you plan to attend in person, please email the Colloquium Assistant, Vanessa Romao (vanessa.romao@mail.utoronto.ca), in advance so that Vanessa may monitor room capacity. We invite faculty and other community members to participate in the colloquium online via Zoom. Please email Prof. Daphne Tan at daphne.tan@utoronto.ca or Prof. Lyndsey Copeland at lyndsey.copeland@utoronto.ca for the webinar link.
Abstract
The T-Dot & the 6ix, or A Riddim Science Mixtape is an exploration of the sonic innovations embedded in independently released Toronto hip-hop songs. In this talk I bring together the riddim method found in reggaeton and Jamaican soundsystems with DJ mixtape techniques to explore hip-hop’s cultural aesthetics as an intertextual and multidisciplinary deciphering practice that gestures at the lived materiality of sonic innovations in a diaspora space such as Toronto.
2021-2022 Series Lineup*
September 23: Laura Risk (Department of Arts, Culture, and Media, UTSC; Faculty of Music, UTSG)
October 21: Mark Campbell (Department of Arts, Culture, and Media, UTSC; Faculty of Music, UTSG)
November 25: Robin Gray (Department of Sociology, UTM)
December 2: Mitchell Akiyama (Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, UTSG)
*Note that each of our Colloquium speakers is a member of the University of Toronto; we are abiding by the CAUT censure and inviting only internal speakers until further notice.