Postdoc project

A chimera with three rappers' heads

(Illustration by Sebastian Bruknapp Sjem)

In my postdoctoral project Project: Chimera I explore how the fundamental aesthetic features of Black art forms (as presented by Tricia Rose) of flow, layering and rupture manifest in and are central to rap. I investigate how this is part of rhythmic structure, arrangements and music production through musical analysis, (auto-) ethnography and cognitive psychology. Theoretical and methodological approaches are derived from fields like music studies, literary studies, psychology/music cognition, linguistics and hip-hop studies.

Central concepts are composite auditory streams (from my PhD project), Albert Bregman's chimericity (an aspect of stream segregation) and Ragnhild Br?vig's opaque (and transparent) mediation.

 

Research outline from application