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B-Girl Be: A Celebration of Women in Hip HopJune 28 – September 1, 2007rap . graffiti . dj . dance . panels . fashion . poetry . visual exhibition . film |
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Melisa Rivière, Scholarship and Visual Hip-Hop |
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| Melisa Rivière is a first generation bilingual and bicultural Latina born to Argentinean parents in the United States. Melisa is a hip-hop scholar, video producer and activist. Her Baccalaureate thesis Art Graffiti; A Cultural Analysis of Graffiti and Twin Cities' Guerrilla Artist and her Master's thesis Graffiti as a Social Resistance Movement: Research, Methods, and Ethics were completed conducting fieldwork in Minneapolis, New York and Puerto Rico. Melisa is now a MacArthur PhD scholar in the Anthropology Department at the University of Minnesota developing research on the diffusion of the four elements of hip-hop in Cuba and Puerto Rico. She has worked with artists from In The House Magazine, Songo Sounds, Time Machine Squad, The Lab Studios, The Cuban Agency for Rap and the Hermanos Saíz Association filming hip-hop conferences, documentaries, festivals, live performances, audio recordings and music video clips with Anónimo Consejo, Tego Calderón, Doble Filo, Obsesion and La Mala Rodriguez, among others. As an educator she continues teaching courses in socio-cultural anthropology and global utilizing hip-hop as a pedagological tool. As an entrepreneur Melisa is the president of Emetrece Production, an audio-visual production and artist management company that focuses on Latin hip-hop and reggaeton. |
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kid & family-friendly . all ages . all genders . all incomes . all ethnic communities |
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