Adam Haupt

Professor

Prof Adam Haupt is Director of the Centre for Film and Media Studies. He is co-editor of Neva Again: Hip-Hop Art, Activism and Education in Post-apartheid South Africa with Quentin Williams (UWC), Emile Jansen (Heal the Hood) and H. Samy Alim (UCLA). He co-produced an EP, #IntheKeyofB, for the book project with hip-hop artist Bradley Lodewyk (aka b-boy King Voue) and is the author of Static: Race and Representation in Post-Apartheid Music, Media and Film and Stealing Empire: P2P, Intellectual Property and Hip-Hop Subversion.

Prof Haupt is Coordinating Editor of Global Hip Hop Studies with Prof J. Griffith Rollefson (University College Cork; see https://www.intellectbooks.com/global-hip-hop-studies) and co-editor of Journal of World Popular Music’s special double issue on Hip Hop Activism and Representational Politics with Quentin Williams and H. Samy Alim (5.1 and 5.2, 2018). He also serves on the advisory board for the first Hip Hop Book Series by University of California Press and on the advisory board of CIPHER: Hip Hop Interpellation, which is funded by the European Research Council.