Mark V. Campbell
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Mark V. Campbell | |
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| Born | 1978 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Thesis | Remixing Relationality: 'Other/ed' Sonic Modernities of our Present (2010) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Musicology; Black Studies |
| Sub-discipline | Afrosonic innovation; notions of the human; hip hop archives. |
| Website | https://markvcampbell.ca/ |
Mark V. Campbell (born 1978) is a Canadian academic, disc jockey and writer. He was raised in Scarborough, a suburb of Toronto, Canada. Currently, he is an assistant professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Arts, Culture and Media, University of Toronto Scarborough.[1] He is the founder of the Northside Hip Hop Archive, an online archive that digitizes oral histories, event flyers, posters and analog recordings that document the beginnings of Canadian hip hop.[2] Campbell is the 2020-21 Jackman Humanities Institute UTSC Fellow and a Connaught Early Career Fellow at the University of Toronto. Campbell was formerly Director of FCAD Forum for Cultural Strategies and adjunct professor at the RTA School of Media, Ryerson University.[clarification needed]
Campbell was a Banting postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Regina. He is a fellow and former postdoctoral fellow with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. Campbell became a disc jockey in 1994 and co-hosted the Bigger than Hip-Hop Show on community radio from 1997 to 2015.[3]
Campbell's work focuses on new modalities of being human, sonic innovations within Black music, and the knowledge production of digital archives.
Work[edit]
Campbell published Afrosonic Life in 2022 which focuses on “the role sonic innovations in the African diaspora play in articulating methodologies for living the afterlife of slavery.”[4]
In 2010, he founded the Northside Hip Hop Archive, aiming to preserve the history of Canada's hip hop community's beginnings in the 1980s and 1990s.[2]
Campbell has curated several exhibitions of Canadian hip-hop archival material: Still Tho: Aesthetic Survival in Hip Hop's Visual Art at Âjagemô art space at the Canada Council for the Arts; ...Everything Remains Raw: Photographing Toronto’s Hip Hop Culture from Analogue to Digital at the McMichael Art Collection,;[5] For the Record: ‘An Idea of the North’ at the TD Gallery at the Toronto Reference Library;[6] Mixtapes: Hip Hop’s Lost Archive at Gallery 918; T-Dot Pioneers 3.0: The Future Must be Replenished at Soho Lobby Gallery;[7] T-Dot Pioneers 2011: The Glenn Gould Remix at the Glenn Gould Studio at CBC Radio;[8] T-Dot Pioneers 2010 at the Toronto Free Gallery.[9]
Selected publications[edit]
- 2022: Afrosonic Life, Bloomsbury Academic
- 2020: (Co-Editor) We Still Here: Hip Hop North of the 49th Parallel, McGill-Queen's University Press
- 2018: ...Everything Remains Raw: Photographing Toronto hip hop Culture from Analogue to Digital, Goose Lanes Edition
References[edit]
- ^ "Mark Campbell | Department of Arts, Culture and Media". www.utsc.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
- ^ a b Winsa, Patty (2017-03-12). "Before Drake, there was Maestro, Michie Mee and mix tapes: Toronto's hip-hop archive takes shape". The Toronto Star. ISSN 0319-0781. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
- ^ Bambury, Brant (26 November 2020). ""How Canadian hip hop prepared a future music professor and DJ to navigate the world he was"". Day 6 (Radio Show). Retrieved 19 March 2021.
- ^ "Afrosonic Life". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
- ^ Hampton, Chris (2018-03-15). "McMichael gallery showcases archive of Canadian hip-hop culture". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
- ^ Ricci, Talia (1 March 2019). ""New exhibit shares how the city's hip-hop scene evolved through the decades"". CBC News. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ "Soho Lobby Gallery Opens With OCAD U Student Showcase". OCAD University. 2014-09-23. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
- ^ ""CBC Celebrates over 25 years of Canadian Hip Hop with the Hip Hop Summit"". CBC. 26 February 2011. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ "Documenting the Toronto scene with T-Dot Pioneers and Northside Hip Hop". www.blogto.com. Retrieved 2022-03-19.