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James McNally
James McNally is currently the Nasir Jones Fellow in Hip-Hop studies at Harvard University. He was, previously, Marie Curie Research Fellow at University College Cork, and he has taught across courses related to the social and cultural histories of music, race and cities at the University of East London and the University of Bristol. His scholarly writing appears in Journal of the Society for American Music, Global Hip-Hop Studies, Journal of Popular Music Studies, and Visual Culture in Britain. His first book, based on his PhD research, will be Future Shock London: A Cultural History of Hip-Hop and the Capital, 1982-85.
Courses
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.