Mark V. Campbell

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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 Radio & Television Arts (RTA) School of Media, Ryerson University.

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.

Affiliations

Association of Canadian Archivists American Musicological Society

Northside Hip Hop Archive

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. [3] Aiming to preserve the history of Canada's hip hop community's beginnings in the 1980s and 1990s. [3]

Hip-hop Exhibitions

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,; [4] For the Record: ‘An Idea of the North’ at the TD Gallery at the Toronto Reference Library; [5] Mixtapes: Hip Hop’s Lost Archive at Gallery 918; T-Dot Pioneers 3.0: The Future Must be Replenished at Soho Lobby Gallery; [6] T-Dot Pioneers 2011: The Glenn Gould Remix at the Glenn Gould Studio at CBC Radio; [7] T-Dot Pioneers 2010 at the Toronto Free Gallery. [8]

Early DJ Work

Campbell became a disc jockey in 1994 and co-hosted the Bigger than Hip-Hop Show on community radio from 1997 to 2015. [9]

Academic Work: African Dispora

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.” [10]

Selected publications

  • 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

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  3. 1 2 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.
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  10. "Afrosonic Life". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
Mark V. Campbell
Born1978
Other namesDJ Grumps
Academic background
Alma mater University of Toronto
Thesis Remixing Relationality: 'Other/ed' Sonic Modernities of our Present  (2010)