My first ever publication. I wrote this for a year 12 VCE subject called Extended Investigation, which asks students to write a 4000 word research paper on a topic of their choosing. At the time I must’ve been into hip hop, as I wrote about the use of hip hop music to index particular (black) identities for two South Sudanese musicians living in Melbourne. Though it’s a very rough piece of work (I was 17!), I still think it says something very interesting about the global social meaning of hip hop music performance.
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