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KEYNOTE: "We're New Here": Hip Hop's Improvisational Diss'

Rinaldo Walcott

Published: 2012-03-30

VIDEO: Dr. Walcott argues that hip-hop's improvisational diss (dismissive of the normative) is a route towards revolution. Dr. Walcott also discusses how the idea of freedom is kept alive in hip-hop's performativity.

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We’ll all be more innovative if we participate in collaborative webs and share more openly. Creativity is always a collaboration and it’s always a form of improvisation, written large in the social world.

– Keith Sawyer