Articles tagged with ‘Morganics’

• Aboriginal Hip-hop: a modern day corroboree

  This is my lyrical healing. I can’t go and get scarred any more and I can’t become a traditional man. I’m a modern day blackfella, this is still Dreamtime for me. Hip-hop is the new clapsticks, hip-hop is the new corroboree.

  - Wire MC

  This paper was given at the Hip-hop meets Academia conference in Chemnitz, Germany, in August 2006. It is a longer and more developed version of the essay published in Meanjin’s ‘Blak Times’ issue in 2006, and draws on all the Local Noise research and interviews with indigenous hip-hop artists.

  Tags: Lez Beckett, South West Syndicate, education, Klub Koori, Aboriginal language hip-hop, Tony Mitchell, Local G, Brotha Black, Munkimuk, Morganics, language, Western Sydney, Wire MC, workshops, breakdancing, community work, Indigenous hip-hop, Local Knowledge, Conference Papers

• Morganics – Video Bio

  A short video bio of Sydney MC & producer Morganics.

  Tags: Artist Bio, Morganics, Sydney, Video

• The Rappers are Revolting: Mixing Folk, Hip-hop and Politics

  This piece was written in response to an article in The Age which argued that there were no protest songs in contemporary Australian culture. The rebuttal was subsequently published in The Age on August 1, 2006, and discusses the political content in a number of Australian hip-hop groups, including The Herd, TZU and Morganics.

  Tags: hip-hop and folk music, The Herd, protest songs, Pegz, Tony Mitchell, Reason, Morganics, Upshot, Elefant Traks, TZU, eco hip-hop, Press & Media