Mark V. Campbell | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1978 (age 46–47) |
| Other names | DJ Grumps |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Thesis | Remixing Relationality: 'Other/ed' Sonic Modernities of our Present (2010) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Musicologist;Black studies scholar |
| Sub-discipline | Afrodiasporic music;hip-hop archives;remix cultures |
| Institutions | University of Toronto |
| Website | https://markvcampbell.ca/ |
Mark V. Campbell (born 1978) is a Canadian academic,disc jockey (stage name DJ Grumps [1] ) and writer. He was raised in Scarborough,Ontario. He is an associate professor,Associate Chair of Research and Program Director of Music at University of Toronto Scarborough. [2] Campbell's work focuses on conceptions of the human and sonic innovations within Black music.
Campbell was the 2020-21 Jackman Humanities Institute Fellow [3] and a Connaught New Researcher Fellow at the University of Toronto. [4] Campbell was formerly Senior Research Associate of the FCAD Forum for Cultural Strategies and adjunct professor at the School of Media,Toronto Metropolitan University. [5]
Campbell was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Regina. [6] He is a research and former postdoctoral fellow with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation,University of Guelph. [7]
Campbell is affiliated with the Association of Canadian Archivists [8] and the American Musicological Society. [9]
He is the founder of the Northside Hip Hop Archive,an online archive started in 2010 that digitizes oral histories,event flyers,posters and analog recordings that document the beginnings of Canadian hip-hop in the 1980s and 1990s. [10]
Campbell has curated several exhibitions of Canadian hip-hop archival material:Still Tho:Aesthetic Survival in Hip Hop's Visual Art at the ÂjagemôExhibition Space at the Canada Council for the Arts; [11] ...Everything Remains Raw:Photographing Toronto’s Hip Hop Culture from Analogue to Digital at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection; [12] For the Record:‘An Idea of the North’ at the TD Gallery at the Toronto Reference Library; [13] Mixtapes:Hip Hop’s Lost Archive at Gallery 918; [14] T-Dot Pioneers 3.0:The Future Must be Replenished at Soho Lobby Gallery; [15] T-Dot Pioneers 2011:The Glenn Gould Remix at the Glenn Gould Studio at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre; [16] T-Dot Pioneers 2010 at the Toronto Free Gallery. [17]
Campbell became a disc jockey in 1994 [1] and co-hosted the Bigger than Hip-Hop Show on community radio from 1997 to 2015. [18]
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.” [19]