Articles tagged with ‘Tony Mitchell’

• Liones (Review)

  A review of Liones’s self-titled LP (Mother Tongues/Creative Vibes) published in Music Forum

  Tags: Media, labels and releases, Music Forum reviews, Tony Mitchell, Brisbane, women in hip-hop, Press & Media

• Make It Happen (Review)

  A review of Upshot’s LP Make It Happen published in Music Forum.

  Tags: live band hip-hop, Music Forum reviews, Tony Mitchell, independent record labels, Press & Media

• Migration, Memory, and Hong Kong: as a ’space of tansit’ in Clara Law’s “Autumn Moon”

  Macau-born and Melbourne-based film maker Clara Law and her screenwriter-producer-director husband Eddie Fong have produced an idiosyncratically transnational output of films which are beginning to receive critical recognition as major contributions to a contemporary cinema of Chinese migration which explores what Gina Marchetti has encapsulated as ‘the Chinese experience of dislocation, relocation, emigration, immigration, cultural hybridity, migrancy, exile, and nomadism – together termed the “Chinese diaspora”.

  This essay looks at the “Chinese diaspora” through the lens of Clara Law’s 1996 feature film Autumn Moon, and particularly how it relates to the city-space of Hong Kong which is characterised as a ‘space of transit’.

  Tags: Tony Mitchell, Conference Papers

• One Step Ahead (Review)

  A review of Reason’s LP One Step Ahead published in Music Forum

  Tags: multiculturalism, environment, Tony Mitchell, Music Forum reviews, masculinity, vernacular, Obese, politics, cultural identity, patriotism, Press & Media

• Players Club (Review)

  A review of 2up’s LP Players Club published in Music Forum.

  Tags: Tony Mitchell, patriotism, cultural identity, Press & Media

• PM: Rapper Snoop Dogg Refused Australian Visa

  On the 26th of April, 2007 the ABC radio program PM discussed the refusal of a visa for U.S. rapper Snoop Dogg, and contacted Tony to comment of the issue. A transcript of the program can be viewed on the ABC’s PM website.

  Tags: ABC, external media, Tony Mitchell, Press & Media

• Position Correction (Review)

  A review of TZU’s first LP Position Correction published in Music Forum.

  Tags: Music Forum reviews, Media, labels and releases, Tony Mitchell, Melbourne, Press & Media

• Smiling at Strangers (Review)

  A review of TZU second LP Smiling at Strangerspublished in Music Forum.

  Tags: Music Forum reviews, Media, labels and releases, Tony Mitchell, Melbourne, Press & Media

• Sonic Allsorts (Review)

  A review of the Cyclic Defrost compilation Sonic Allsorts published in Music Forum.

  Tags: globalisation, Tony Mitchell, Music Forum reviews, multilingualism, hip-hop and migrant experience, cultural identity, hip-hop and folk music, multiculturalism, Press & Media

• Sounds From Our Town: Tasmanian Hip-Hop

  “Music emanating from Tasmania has generally been pretty much off the radar in terms of mainstream or even underground success or acknowledgment in Australia.” On a trip to Tasmania in April 2007, Tony Mitchell went forraging through fragments of the Tasmanian music scene in search of the underground traces of Hobart hip-hop. This piece - published as a feature in Music Forum - is a result of a forraging which included an interview with Hobart-based porducer Crytearia (this interview can be viewed at the website also).

  Tags: globalisation, Tony Mitchell, Hobart, independent record labels, production, instrumental hip-hop, Somalia, Press & Media

• Survival Tactics (Review)

  Survival Tactics, a hip-hop theatre show created collaboratively by Morganics, Nick Power, Wire MC, Sista Native, Maya Jupiter and BBoy Jay (Wikid Force), was performed in Melbourne (ArtsHouse 18-21 July), Brisbane (Powerhouse 25-28 July) and Sydney (Opera House Studio 8-11 August). This review by Tony Mitchell was published in Music Forum.

  Tags: four elements, Hip-Hopera, Tony Mitchell, Music Forum reviews, MCing, multiculturalism, graffiti, breakdancing, theatre, Press & Media

• Sydney-centrism, Parochialism and Popular Music Studies: a review of Ian Maxwell’s book “Phat Beats, Dope Rhymes”

  A review of Ian Maxwell’s book Phat Beats, Dope Rhymes: Hip-hop Down Under Comin’ Upper (Middletown, CT:Wesleyan University Press), 2003, 294 pp. ISBN 0-8195-6638-1), published in the UTS Cultural Studies Review.

  Tags: subcultural theory, Ian Maxwell, four elements, Tony Mitchell, Music Forum reviews, Place, localising hip-hop, hip-hop and academia, Sydney, Western Sydney, 2SER, cultural identity, self expression, masculinity, Press & Media

• The DIY Habitus of Australian Hip-hop: Embodied Histories, Community and Scene

  If habitus is regarded as ‘deep seated generative principles of thought, perception, appreciation, and action’, this ‘fit’ seems eminently applicable to the ‘embodied history’ of hip-hop subcultures and the expression of their ‘objectified history’ in practices such as recording, performing, internet interaction, music journalism, and independent radio and television broadcasting.

  This paper, originally published in Media International Australia, looks at the Australian hip-hop culture in terms of its do-it-yourself ethos, which is, in part, a result of a lack of support from the commerical record labels. Tony Mitchell here discusses the artists, groups and independent labels that have championed this DIY ethos and have built a community of practice outside the mainstream industry.

  Tags: localising hip-hop, community radio, authenticity, independent record labels, Tony Mitchell, Aboriginal language hip-hop, DIY ethos, Pegz, Elefant Traks, Obese, Hilltop Hoods, Koolism, Reason, Indigenous hip-hop, Conference Papers

• The Hard Road Restrung (Review)

  A review of the Hilltop Hoods collaboration with Adelaide Symphony Orchestra The Hard Road Restrung. Written by Tony Mitchell and published in Music Forum.

  Tags: Music Forum reviews, Tony Mitchell, Obese, Press & Media

• 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