Music!Dance!Culture! Episode 4: Representing place through hip-hop with Sudiipta Dowsett

Abstract

In this episode we interview researcher and performer Sudiipta Shamalii Dowsett, our collaborator on the previous episode and the two episodes to come about her research on representing place through hip-hop in First Nations cultures in Central Australia and South Africa as well as her own experience of hip-hop.

Music Dance Culture is produced by Georgia Curran (she/her) and Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan (they/them). Theme music by Mahesh, remixed and produced by Arian Pearson. Sound design by Mahesh with inputs from Alexis Weaver. Thanks to Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the Australian Anthropological Society, PARADISEC, Sudiipta Dowsett and Jennifer White-Radhakrishnan,

This episode was recorded and produced on the unceded lands of Aboriginal people of the Sydney region, the Southern Highlands and Northern New South Wales. We acknowledge and pay our respects to all elders past, present and emerging.

We would also like to respectfully acknowledge the roots of hip-hop in African American and Afro-Caribbean cultures especially acknowledging the tragic legacies of the transatlantic slave trade and celebrate the hopes of emancipation and step towards justice taken on this day, the 19th of June 1865 (Juneteenth).