The event is sold out but you can watch the livestream at 4pm EDT!
The event is sold out but you can watch the livestream at 4pm EDT!
Get your tickets NOW! May 15, 3-7pm EDT
Next week, 4/14!
PRE-ORDER my book, Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City (NYU Press, June 28, 2022) and use this code to get 30% OFF. CODE SMALLS30-FM at nyupress.org
I would like to thank Alex Weheliye & Cynthia Young for these glowing words about my forthcoming book (June 28, 2022). Please pre-order here: https://nyupress.org/9781479808182/hip-hop-heresies/
Finally (deep heavy sigh of relief, followed by loud cheers of ‘yes, yesssss, y’all’) we have a book about NYC hip-hop culture that is as queerly heretical as the genre itself. Challenging the cishetero masculinist narratives usually projected onto hip-hop culture, Shanté Paradigm Smalls beautifully and heretically mashes up Black aesthetics, queer aesthetics, and hip hop aesthetics. Hip Hop Heresies is poised to irrevocably change the parameters of hip-hop scholarship. ~Alexander Ghedi Weheliye, Northwestern University
Quite simply a tour de force. Like Tricia Rose’s classic Black Noise, this book is a field-defining game-changer. Challenging hip hop’s traditional origin story, Smalls tears down, brick-by-brick, the well-worn narratives about the genre’s relationship to blackness, masculinity, and heterosexuality. In innovative readings of film, visual art, and music, Smalls takes us into the formative spaces where people of all genders, sexualities and races co-mingle and co-create. In the process, Smalls constructs a new archive in which queer aesthetics, gender play, and categorical instability fuel hip hop’s more transgressive tendencies. Highly readable, theoretically sophisticated, and utterly persuasive, Hip Hop Heresies is essential reading for hip hop fans and critics, as well as anyone interested in U.S. popular culture in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. ~Cynthia A. Young, Pennsylvania State University
Short video (3:49) where I talk about my book, HIP HOP HERESIES: QUEER AESTHETICS IN NYC (NYU Press, June 2022). To pre-order: ow.ly/ipNp50Iafsl
In 2017, I had the pleasure of doing an interview with @channabach on the @ideasonfirephd podcast about my then-in-process book, Hip Hop Heresies. Well, a lot has changed since this interview: I am no longer a member of Shambhala International, my book will be out June 28, 22, i have tenure, my locs are *way* longer, and we live in a post-panini world. Check out this podcast, and let me know your thoughts!🙃
#queerhistory #queerauthors #hiphophistory #NYCHipHop
#BIPOC #trans #academia
Excited to be a part of this virtual conference Friday, March 4. It’s in Mountain Time (USA). Free! Register with QR Code/link on flyer!
Have you pre-ordered my book? HIP HOP HERESIES is out June 28 on @nyupress. Can’t pre-order? Ask your local library, bookstore, or local college/university to pre-order it!