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My research focuses on the representation of hip-hoppers as social and cultural agents and the analysis of hip-hop practices of design through sound, image, and narrative. In particular, I have worked over the past 10 years with rappers, DJs, graffiti artists, and B-boys / B-girls in São Paulo, Brazil. In addition, I worked for two years with rappers, DJs, and producers in Austin, Texas.
I employ strategies of methodology and epistemology from urban anthropology, critical race theory, discourse theory, cultural studies, and ethnomusicology to guide my analysis. My ethnographic manuscript Hip-Hop as Cultural Design: A Retelling of Marginality in São Paulo, Brazil is currently under review at Wesleyan University Press.
Aside from hip-hop, I have conducted ethnographic and socio-linguistic research on Brazilian soccer and casual dining restaurants in central Illinois. In addition, I am presently editing a collective volume of essays called Ruminations on Violence (Waveland Press, forthcoming), in which I bring together an eclectic array of scholars, educators, journalists, artists, poets, and storytellers to represent the diversity and complexity of violence as part of the human experience.
For more information see the overview of the department's research in sociocultural anthropology.
Race, Class and Gender: Cultural Readings of Brazil and its Cities; Vote for Pedro: A Critical Look at Youth and Popular Cultures
Pardue, Derek
(in press) We's on Tape: Ideologies of Marginality in Brazilian Hip Hop. Palgrave McMillan Press.
2008. Ruminations on Violence (edited volume). Waveland Press.
2007. "Hip Hop as Pedagogy: A Look into 'Heaven' and 'Soul' in Sao Paulo, Brazil" from Anthropological Quarterly Volume 80 no. 3, 2007 Summer. pp. 673-710. [pdf]
2005. "CD Cover Art as Cultural Literacy and Hip-Hop Design in Brazil." Education, Communication and Information 5(1): 61-81.
2005. "Brazilian Hip-Hop Material and Ideology: A Case of Cultural Design" in Image and Narrative, Volume 10, (http://www.imageandnarrative.be/worldmusica/worldmusica.htm)
2004. "Putting Mano to Music: The Mediation of Race in Brazilian Rap." Ethnomusicology Forum 13(2), pp. 253-286.
2004. "'Writing in the Margins': Brazilian Hip-Hop as an Educational Project." Anthropology and Education Quarterly 35(4).
2002. "Jogada Lingüística: Discursive Play and the Hegemonic Force of Soccer in Brazil." Sport and Social Issues 26(2), pp. 360-380.
