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In this conversation, Liv sits down with Dakota Camacho to explore the importance of returning to our cultural roots and why reclaiming ancestral wisdom matters more than ever. Through the lens of CHamoru culture, they reflect on the wisdom of our elders, the values that shape our identity, and how our generation can reconnect to culture and carry these traditions forward.EPISODE TAKEAWAYSEmbracing our heritage helps us understand ourselves and our community more deeplyTraditional practices and language carry the wisdom of our ancestors and keep culture aliveCultural knowledge guiding activism strengthens community and supports collective healingArt, poetry, and music give us ways to share our stories and find healingA culturally connected future grows through community care and sustainable livingReconnecting with our roots can be a powerful journey that honors ancestral wisdomCONNECT WITH DAKOTADakota Camacho is a Matao/CHamoru artist born and raised in Coast Salish Territory who creates indigenizing processes through altar-making, movement, film, music, and prayer. Yo'ña (their) work has been presented across five continents and throughout Oceania. Exploring the intersections of integrity, ancestral and Indigenous lifeways, true love, and accountability, guiya (they) activate a Matao worldview to make offerings toward inafa'maolek—balance and harmony with all of life. Through embodied practice, Camacho generates encounters with self, community, spirit, and the natural world, cultivating spaces where multiple ways of knowing, being, and doing speak to one another in service of collective liberation.Camacho is a Nia Tero Pacific Northwest Artist Fellow and a Western Arts Alliance Native Launchpad Artist, and has received awards and support from the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, the National Performance Network Creation Fund, NDN Collective's Radical Imagination Grant, and Creative Capital. They co-founded I Moving Lab, an inter-national, inter-cultural, inter-tribal, and inter-disciplinary arts collective that creates self-funded initiatives connecting rural and urban communities, universities, museums, and performing arts institutions. Camacho holds an M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and a B.A. in Gender & Women's Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison as a First Wave Urban Arts and Hip Hop Scholar, and has taught at UC Santa Cruz and the University of Guåhan, including their self-designed course, “Performing Indigenous Worldviews.Website: https://www.gimatanguma.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/infinitedakota/?hl=enCONNECT WITH INA WELLNESS COLLECTIVEWebsite: https://www.inawellnesscollective.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inawellnesscollectiveWATCH FULL EPISODES ON YOUTUBEhttps://www.youtube.com/@inawellnessWAYS TO WORK TOGETHERWell Within Membershiphttps://www.inawellnesscollective.com/wellwithinRise & Align Group Programhttps://www.inawellnesscollective.com/riseandalignSPECIAL THANKSThis episode was recorded in the beautiful Penthouse Suite at Dusit Beach Resort Guam. Dusit Beach is part of the interconnected Dusit destination resort in Tumon Bay, alongside Dusit Thani Guam Resort and Dusit Place, offering guests a seamless, all-in-one beachfront experience with world-class dining, shopping, and relaxation.Follow them at @dusitbeachresortguamView all Offerings at https://www.dusit.com/dusitbeach-resortguam/
In this episode we hear from artist Dakota Camacho. They speak to us through song and story about depth in relationship to land, community and in what ways they practice their art. They speak on mindfulness in social media, protocol, witnessing elders and self, of accountability, how to embrace challenges as gifts, and so much more. About the artist: Dakota Camacho is a Matao/CHamoru artist born & raised in Coast Salish Territory who creates indigenizing processes by weaving languages of altar-making, movement, film, music, and prayer. Exploring the overlap between integrity, ancestral/indigenous lifeways, true love, and accountability, guiya (they) activates a Matao worldview to make offerings towards inafa'maolek (Balance and harmony with all of life). Camacho has presented yo'ña (their) work on five continents and throughout Oceania. Guiya is a Nia Tero Pacific Northwest Artist Fellow, Western Art's Alliance - Native Launchpad Artist and the recipient of The New England Foundation of the Arts, National Dance Project Award, The National Performance Network's Creation Fund. Camacho holds a Masters of Arts in Performance Studies from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Bachelor of Arts in Gender & Women's Studies as a First Wave Urban Arts and Hip Hop Scholar. Camacho is a chanter, adjunct instructor, and core researcher for I Fanlalai'an Oral History Project based at the University of Guåhan. Yo'ña (their) work enacts spaces for multiple worlds, ways of knowing, being, and doing to speak to each other while unearthing embodied pathways towards collective liberation https://www.dakotacamacho.com IG @infinatedakota Music Featured: Following our conversation we will hear a very special unreleased song by Dakota Camacho titled Fangoggue, exclusively presented for this Broken Boxes episode.
In this episode we hear from artist Dakota Camacho. They speak to us through song and story about depth in relationship to land, community and in what ways they practice their art. They speak on mindfulness in social media, protocol, witnessing elders and self, of accountability, how to embrace challenges as gifts, and so much more. Dakota is an exceptional human being whom I feel very blessed to have met in this life and I am grateful to be able to share this conversation with you all. About the artist: Dakota Camacho is a Matao/CHamoru artist born & raised in Coast Salish Territory who creates indigenizing processes by weaving languages of altar-making, movement, film, music, and prayer. Exploring the overlap between integrity, ancestral/indigenous lifeways, true love, and accountability, guiya (they) activates a Matao worldview to make offerings towards inafa'maolek (Balance and harmony with all of life). Camacho has presented yo'ña (their) work on five continents and throughout Oceania. Guiya is a Nia Tero Pacific Northwest Artist Fellow, Western Art's Alliance - Native Launchpad Artist and the recipient of The New England Foundation of the Arts, National Dance Project Award, The National Performance Network's Creation Fund. Camacho holds a Masters of Arts in Performance Studies from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Bachelor of Arts in Gender & Women's Studies as a First Wave Urban Arts and Hip Hop Scholar. Camacho is a chanter, adjunct instructor, and core researcher for I Fanlalai'an Oral History Project based at the University of Guåhan. Yo'ña (their) work enacts spaces for multiple worlds, ways of knowing, being, and doing to speak to each other while unearthing embodied pathways towards collective liberation https://www.dakotacamacho.com IG @infinatedakota Music Featured: Following our conversation we will hear a very special unreleased song by Dakota Camacho titled Fangoggue, exclusively presented for this Broken Boxes episode.
Hey shiftshapers, it's time to get personal! This week we're talking about your inner circle in Episode 37: What About Yo Friends with EbonyJanice! EbonyJanice Moore is a womanist scholar, author, and activist doing community-organizing work, most specifically around black women's body ownership as a justice issue, black women's access to ease, joy, and play, and Hip Hop as a tool for sociopolitical and spiritual/religious movement making. Her research interests include issues pertaining to blackness, woman-ness, and spirituality – most specifically black women's use of spirit, conjure, and/or the supernatural as a tool to impact social justice, and the pluralism of Black Christianity, and the interconnectedness of the Southern Black Christian experience with Indigenous African religions and African Spirituality. She is a Hip Hop Scholar and hosts a podcast focused on hip hop and womanism called Rap Theology. She recently performed an original creative piece about The Rebellion at Igbo Landing at The Public Theater in New York City and is currently working on an expansion of that play focused on the women that often get lost in the story. EbonyJanice has a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Political Science and a Master of Arts in Social Change with a concentration in Spiritual Leadership, Womanist Theology, and Racial Justice. She is the founder of Black Girl Mixtape, a multi-platform safe think-space, centering the intellectual authority of black women in the form of a lecture series, a podcast, and an online learning institute lead by black women scholars. Tune in to your spirit on Soundcloud, Google Play, Apple Podcast, I Heart Radio, Spotify, and Shapingtheshift.com, and let's start the healing! Visit our site ShapingtheShift.com for more details, show notes, exclusives, and ways to support Shaping the Shift.
On the Czech music scene, she is known as the Hip Hop Scholar, but the hip hop scene is not only the subject of her research. Anna Oravcová is a sociologist whose research focuses on rap and hip hop culture, and Czech women rappers in particular. Besides her research activities and writing academic articles and book chapters, she is one of the organizers of the Freestyle Mondays and End of the Weak events. On her Street Cypher radio show on Radio Spin, she regularly features young independent artists. Currently she is also teaching at the University of New York in Prague. How is hip hop, as a research topic, accepted in academia? How is Czech rap evolving? What is the position of women in rap, and which African American scholars influenced Anna? Concept & narration: Mary C Title music: Mary C Translation: Anna Oravcová Visuals: Vladyslav Afanasiev & Jan Brož Released weekly by Institute of Anxiety www.institutuzkosti.cz
We speak with Nex Millen - Hip Hop Scholar, Culture Keeper, MC, Activist, Educator, DJ, Producer and more. Nex brings a unique perspective from his childhood and formative years growing up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We discuss the racial issues effecting our nation right now and what boots on the ground have to say about that. We talk about his work with the One Mic Studio (in collaboration with LEAF Global Arts) and his outlet as an educator teaching kids about hip-hop culture and how to enrich their lives. We discuss the way Covid has brought us back to the place of focusing on what is most important and how it frames how we move forward. Nex was also on the movement that garnered national attention when the city of Asheville presented and considered a reparation platform to help the disenfranchised people of color in our city. We look at how the original proposal has changed and how the watering down and placating nature of the revised version of the initiative is less helpful and far less useful. The long violent and racist history of the United States is still evident in the country we live in present day and an understanding of that will help us move forward. Please support the YMI Cultural Center and any other organizations like it in your listening area to help fight systemic racism and help found a more just and verdant future. CHECK OUT A NEW SONG FROM NEX IN COLLABORATION WITH CEE KNOWLEDGE FROM DIGABLE PLANETS AT THE END OF THE EPISODE Find Nex on Spotify: Click Here
Panama chops it up with noted (and reluctant) Outkast-ologist, Dr. Regina Bradley about bringing southern hip-hop and Outkast into academia, how she got into that space, and Outkast's place in hip-hop. They also rank Outkast's albums, talk briefly about The Ringer's list of Greatest Outkast songs—more coming in a future episode—and Regina gives us some dope Black author book recommendations. Check it out! Have a Black one! Intro Music: Berto Antonio "Morning Rituals" Break Music: You Gon' Have To Figure That Out Yourself Outro Music: Berto Antonio "LMK" from his debut EP, WRTHYhttps://open.spotify.com/album/7G4ZtHQLxE…gbRpiIujqXnOAtdQ Produced, Recorded, Edited and Mixed by Panama Jackson
Scholar, youth leader, minister, poet, rapper, and content curator for probably the largest Hip-Hop based education community in the world -- Timothy David Jones. Timothy, who is currently a lecturer and Hip-Hop Scholar in Residence at Teachers College, Columbia University, details his path to Hip-Hop based education, how he e-stumbled into his #HipHopEd role, his company Techniques4Learning, and, as an ordained minister, how religion and spirituality blend into the mix. www.RateThisPodcast.com/hiphop (www.RateThisPodcast.com/hiphop) Support this podcast
Nex Millen is a Hip Hop Scholar and Cultural Curator from Southwest Philly. Nex took us through his journey through his musical influences, connection to the first drive through record store in the world, mass commercialization of music, and his love of the culinary arts. My co-host in the studio was the beautiful and eloquent producer Elle Rox added such rich inquisitions to this amazing conversation. Hip Hop enthusiasts take a listen you will learn so much from this King.
Episode #78 feat. Dr. R. N. Bradley (Hip-Hop Scholar) by Ellise
South African hip hop veteran, Thabiso "Hip Hop Scholar" Khati speaks to music journalist, Helen Herimbi, in front of a live audience. He lets us in on his come up, managing Amunishn, the rise and fall of Cashtime Life, making amends and how he reinvented himself in the music business. Engineered and edited by Kitso Moremi. Watch the full conversation at https://youtu.be/lAaIHmQYgfg Follow @uHelenH on Instagram.
Ghana born, Bronx raised hip hop scholar Joseph Ewoodzie has published the book Break Beats in the Bronx: Rediscovering Hip-Hop's Early Years, a book that uncovers details of hip hop’s early years in the South Bronx. Ewoodzie’s book provides rich details of hip hop’s history in the South Bronx. In this interview he discusses his decision to write the book and touches on some of the major themes the book addresses. For example, Ewoodzie talks about the social economic environment in the South Bronx that gave rise to hip hop, environments that mirrored the environments that gave rise to hip hop in Africa. In the interview we also cover the book’s Discussion of the link between gang culture and hip hop The controversies around Afrika Bambaataa The rise and decline of the visibility of the DJ in mainstream hip hop The connection between hip hop culture and Africa’s oral tradition The connections between music in Africa and the Diaspora South Bronx Ghanaian immigrants in the development of hip hop The origins of the masculinization of hip hop The book can be purchased at: uncpress.org/book/9781469632759/break-beats-in-the-bronx Joseph Ewoodzie can be followed on Twitter at twitter.com/piko_eContinue reading
Chris Pierznik is a New Jersey based writer whos work has appeared in cuepoint, XXL, and Business Insider just to name a few. And is the author of 8 books including: Hip-Hop Scholar: a Compendium of Rantings, Ravings, and Ruminations on Rap. I talk to Chris about the second disc of “Wu-Tang Forever.” We get into the production and grandiosity of the album in general as well as Chris’ experience with the album and Wu-Tang overall! This episode was recorded before the release of “The Saga Continues” and U-God’s book, so we speak a bit about that as well. Check Chris Pierznik on Twitter at twitter.com/chrispierznik & https://christopherpierznik.com Keep up with me at singodsuperior.com. Please rate, subscribe, comment, and share with your fam! If this is your first time listening, please subscribe to the podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wu-tang-podcast/id1137475083?mt=2
H Y P E R masculinity Panelist 3: Dr. Mark Anthony Neal Professor of African and African American Studies at Duke University Founding Director of the Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship at Duke University 2012 Hip-Hop Scholar of the Year. Words, Beats and Life Foundation. Panelist 4: Black Male Student UNC Student Music Thinkin Bout You – Frank Ocean Godspeed – Frank Ocean
H Y P E R masculinity Panelist 1: Anyssa Reddix UNC Student, Class of 2018 Co-Founder of SPARK EROT Poetry Panelist 2: Deshawn Dazevedo UNC Student, Class of 2019 Panelist 3: Dr. Mark Anthony Neal Professor of African and African American Studies at Duke University Founding Director of the Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship at Duke University 2012 Hip-Hop Scholar of the Year. Words, Beats and Life Foundation. Music All of the Lights – Kanye West Testimony – Tee Grizzley Fuck the Police – N.W.A
Power Moves- MC's have them, B-Boys and B-Girls do'em, but does Hip Hop make Power Moves? This episode we are fortunate enough to be joined by renowned Hip Hop Scholar, professor, and author Dr. Halifu Osumare (@hosumare) www.halifuosumare.com. Dr Osumare takes the third mic and opens up her U.C. Davis African American Studies 181 Hip Hop in Urban America Class to us and leads us with the help of her students in a discussion around community, organizing and the role Hip Hop plays. Of course, we lace you with some curated Hip Hop tracks and samples too.So sit back, press play and learn something and join the conversation. Much loves goes out the Aggies from AAS 181 and the Good Doc.