Loving Wholeness Together, With Grief: A Listening Session With Liner Notes

Session Type: Demonstration/Performance

Abstract

This performance/demonstration session focuses on creative-scholarly productions made through hip-hop feminist standpoints and the methodologies of collectivity that give them life. Conceptualized as a listening session with liner notes dialogue, the session features work from scholar-artists working in collective settings to produce music albums, audio papers, and ritual performance scripts – all as modes of scholarship. This session is significant for how it expands beyond the text-centricity of hip-hop education and pedagogy (e.g., books, articles) and the fixity of social science research by leaning into Black feminist performance, poetics, soundings, and embodied practice. The session will also provide QR codes for access to a listening and viewing pack to extend engagement beyond the session timeframe.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Hip Hop Theories, Praxis & Pedagogies

Chair

• Jason D. Rawls, The Ohio State University

Papers

• Us Whole: An Abolition of Hip-Hop Sound - Emery Marc Petchauer, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Creating the Party vs. Coming to Party: A Performance Script Ritual - Ruth Nicole Brown, Michigan State University

• “Love Sleeves”: A Sonic Introduction to Love and Loops - Blair Ebony Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Punished for Dreaming: The Album - Stevie D. Johnson, The Ohio State University