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Mark V. Campbell
Born1978
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
ThesisRemixing Relationality: 'Other/ed' Sonic Modernities of our Present (2010)
Academic work
DisciplineMusicology; Black Studies
Sub-disciplineAfrosonic innovation; notions of the human; hip hop archives.
Websitehttps://markvcampbell.ca/

Mark V. Campbell (born 1978) is a Canadian academic, disc jockey and writer. He was raised in Scarborough, a suburb of Toronto, Canada. Currently, he is an assistant professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Arts, Culture and Media, University of Toronto Scarborough.[1] He is the founder of the Northside Hip Hop Archive, an online archive that digitizes oral histories, event flyers, posters and analog recordings that document the beginnings of Canadian hip hop.[2] 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 RTA School of Media, Ryerson University.[clarification needed]

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. Campbell became a disc jockey in 1994 and co-hosted the Bigger than Hip-Hop Show on community radio from 1997 to 2015.[3]

Campbell's work focuses on new modalities of being human, sonic innovations within Black music, and the knowledge production of digital archives.

Work

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.”[4]

In 2010, he founded the Northside Hip Hop Archive, aiming to preserve the history of Canada's hip hop community's beginnings in the 1980s and 1990s.[2]

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,;[5] For the Record: ‘An Idea of the North’ at the TD Gallery at the Toronto Reference Library;[6] Mixtapes: Hip Hop’s Lost Archive at Gallery 918; T-Dot Pioneers 3.0: The Future Must be Replenished at Soho Lobby Gallery;[7] T-Dot Pioneers 2011: The Glenn Gould Remix at the Glenn Gould Studio at CBC Radio;[8] T-Dot Pioneers 2010 at the Toronto Free Gallery.[9]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ "Mark Campbell | Department of Arts, Culture and Media". www.utsc.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
  2. ^ a b 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.
  3. ^ Bambury, Brant (26 November 2020). ""How Canadian hip hop prepared a future music professor and DJ to navigate the world he was"". Day 6 (Radio Show). Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  4. ^ "Afrosonic Life". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
  5. ^ Hampton, Chris (2018-03-15). "McMichael gallery showcases archive of Canadian hip-hop culture". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
  6. ^ Ricci, Talia (1 March 2019). ""New exhibit shares how the city's hip-hop scene evolved through the decades"". CBC News. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  7. ^ "Soho Lobby Gallery Opens With OCAD U Student Showcase". OCAD University. 2014-09-23. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
  8. ^ ""CBC Celebrates over 25 years of Canadian Hip Hop with the Hip Hop Summit"". CBC. 26 February 2011. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  9. ^ "Documenting the Toronto scene with T-Dot Pioneers and Northside Hip Hop". www.blogto.com. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
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