"He’s Calling His Flock Now": Black Music and Postcoloniality from Buddy Bolden’s New Orleans to Sefyu’s Paris

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J. Griffith Rollefson is lecturer in popular music studies at University College Cork, National University of Ireland. He has served on the faculties of music at the University of Cambridge and the University of California, Berkeley, where he also served as UC Chancellor’s Public Scholar. His research has been supported by the Berlin Program, DAAD, ACLS, and British Academy and is published in Black Music Research Journal, Popular Music and Society, TwentiethCentury Music, and Music and Letters and in the collections Crosscurrents: European and American Music in Interaction 1900–2000 (ed. Meyer, Oja, Rathert, and Shreffler), Native Tongues: An African Hip Hop Reader (ed. Saucier), and Hip Hop in Europe: Cultural Identities and Transnational Flows (ed. Nitzsche and Grunzweig). He is currently preparing for publication his book European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality, based on fieldwork with hip hop communities in Paris, Berlin, and London.