View analytic
Roundtable: Conjured Collaborations, Political Voice, and Hip-Hop History
Moderators 
Zandria F. Robinson writes on Southern hip-hop, the urban South, and Black feminist themes in the work of Black women popular culture artists. Her book, This Ain’t Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South is an ethnographic and pop examination of the intersections of race, class, gender, and region in Black identity. Robinson teaches sociology at Rhodes College, blogs at New South Negress, and tweets sundries...
Read More →
Amerigo Gazaway is a Nashville native and the creator of The Soul Mates Project’s series of mashup collaborations. As producer of Fela Soul, Bizarre Tribe, and Yasiin Gaye, he has led presentations at USC, TSU, and the Google Tech Talk: “Redefining the Remix with Amerigo Gazaway.” His music has been featured in The Good Man film and Apple’s “Jason’s Verse” iPad commercial, and his work has been profiled...
Read More →
Rickey Mindlin is the co-founder of The Soul Mates Project, which traces the roots of hip-hop by imagining “collaborations that never were.” As executive producer of Amerigo Gazaway’s Yasiin Gaye, Fela Soul, and Bizarre Tribe albums, Mindlin serves as conceptual collaborator with Gazaway, and the duo’s work has charted on Billboard’s Top Selling singles chart. He studied audio production at The New School before...
Read More →
