Remixing the Hip-Hop Narrative: Between Local Expressions and Global Connections

James Barber, born in 1986, is a PhD student at the Institute of Musicology at Universit?t Bern. Addressing the Jamaican cultural influence on US hip-hop in New York (1970s-1990s), his thesis focuses on the historical circularity of Jamaican and African American popular music and cultural practice, and proliferating interactions between New York reggae and hip-hop practice in the 1980s and 1990s especially.
Christian B?schges, born in 1965, is professor of Iberian and Latin American history at the Institute of History at Universit?t Bern, and director of the Center of Global Studies. B?schges completed his doctorate in history at Universit?t K?ln and was professor of history at Universit?t Bielefeld. His research focuses on Latin American and global history, especially on questions of identity politics, ethnicity, and social movements.
Dianne Violeta Mausfeld, born in 1983, is a research fellow at the Center for InterAmerican Studies at Universit?t Bielefeld. She obtained her PhD in History at Universit?t Bern in 2022. Her research interests center around US hip hop, Chicano and Latino history and popular culture, and Pan-American history and culture.
Britta Sweers, born in 1969, has been professor of cultural anthropology of music at the Institute of Musicology at Universit?t Bern since 2009 and was also director of the University's Center for Global Studies (2016-2020). Her research interests include the transformation of traditional musics in a global context, global popular music, nationalism and music, as well as soundscape studies.