Listening Session: UK Hip Hop

James G. McNally is a cultural historian, rap critic, and co-ideator of Spotify’s UK rap podcast Decode. The podcast won two gold medals each at the 2022 British Podcast Awards and the Radio Academy’s 2022 ARIAs. As a fellow at Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Dr. McNally’s book-length project is Long Island Rap Renaissance, a history exploring the interconnections of race, class, and geography in the era-defining explosion of rap music from New York’s Black suburbia in the late 1980s.

SUPA System is a sonic sculpture and public art project created by Loeb/ArtLab fellow Joseph Zeal-Henry, commissioned by the Harvard University Committee on the Arts, and produced at ArtLab.

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