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James McNally
James McNally is a cultural historian, rap critic, and co-ideator of Spotify’s UK rap podcast Decode, which won two gold medals each at the 2022 British Podcast Awards and the Radio Academy’s 2022 ARIAs.
He is currently the Nasir Jones Fellow in Hip-Hop studies at Harvard University. As a fellow his 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.
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From its origins in 70s New York, hip-hop has become a global phenomenon. This day school charts the history of that development, looking also at the appearance of regional styles in the West Coast, southern states and abroad.