2024
Conference: IASPM UK & Ireland Biennial Conference 2024. Place, Perspective and Popular Music. International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle University, 4–6 September 2024.
Paper:
- Mausfeld, Dianne Violeta. "Music Places and Research Spaces: Reflections on an Ethnographic Study of Chicano Rap in Los Angeles.”
Conference: 70th Meeting of the German Association for American Studies. American Soundscapes, Workshop ‘Beyond “Black CNN”’: Hip-Hop Soundscapes between Lifeworld and Art World,’ organized by Anthony Obst and Michael L. Thomas [invited], Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, May 23–25, 2024.
Paper:
- Mausfeld, Dianne Violeta. “Sounds of the Barrio: The Spatiality of Chicano Rap in TV & Film.” (invited)
The 8th Global Reggae Conference + Sound System Outernational #10: “A Century of Sound: Technology, Culture and Performance.” The University of the West Indies, Jamaica, February 14-17, 2024.
Paper:
- Barber, James. “Mapping and Soundtracking Reggae’s Reception, Intersections and Fusion with Hip Hop Culture in New York.”
2023
Conference “HipHop im 21. Jahrhundert. Narrative, Mythen und Brüche. Zur Produktion von Mannigfaltigkeit,” Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg, December 8–9, 2023.
Paper:
- Mausfeld, Dianne Violeta. “Rivalisierende Narrative und Geschichtsschreibungen im Chicano Rap.”
Conference "Annual Meeting of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs," San Diego, CA, October 19–21, 2023.
Paper:
- Mausfeld, Dianne Violeta. “’Don’t let the Palm Trees fool you’: Visions of California in Chicano Hip-Hop.”
San Diego State University, College of Arts and Letters, SDSU Center for Comics Studies/ Department of English & CompLit., October 17, 2023.
Guest lecture:
- Mausfeld, Dianne Violeta. “Ay Caramba?! The Transcultural Politics of West Coast Hip-Hop,” (invitation by William A. Nericcio)
Conference: Annual Meeting of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, University of Edinburgh, April 13-16, 2023 (hybrid).
Paper:
- Mausfeld, Dianne Violeta. “American Spaces, Mexican Flows: The Chicano Hip-Hop Movement in Los Angeles & Beyond.”
Research Colloquium for Iberian and Latin American History, Prof. Dr. Silke Hensel, University of Cologne, January 25, 2023.
Paper:
- Mausfeld, Dianne Violeta. “Chicano Hip-Hop in Los Angeles: Evolution, Spaces, Dialogues.” (invited)
2022
Conference: 68th Meeting of the German Association for American Studies, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, June 9-11, 2022, Workshop ‘Hip Hop and/as Political Education’ (organized by Stefan Benz und Stefan Danter)
Paper:
- Mausfeld, Dianne Violeta. "Chicano Hip-Hop at the Crossroads of Gangster Rap and Activism.” (invited)
2021
Conference „Hip-Hop Transcultural: Constructing and Contesting Identity, Space, and Place in the Americas and Beyond“, University of Bern, October 28-30 (Organizers: James Barber, Christian Büschges, Dianne Violeta Mausfeld, Britta Sweers):
Papers:
- James Barber: "The Historical Circularity of Jamaican and African+/American Cultural Practice: Re-Framing the Jamaican Influence on Hip-Hop in New York"
- Dianne Violeta Mausfeld: “'Double the Struggle': Latino/Chicano Hip-Hop and the East Coast-West Coast Dialectic"
29th Conference of the Latin American Studies Association, Virtual Congress, May 26 - 29, 2021.
Paper:
- Dianne Violeta Mausfeld: “'We’re Hip-Hop’s Minority!' Transcultural Collaboration and the Chicano Struggle for Recognition in Los Angeles Hip-Hop"
Spring Academy of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies, March 22-26, 2021 (virtual event).
Papers:
- Dianne Violeta Mausfeld: "'American Made with a Mexican Flow!' Chicano Hip-Hop, Space, and Identity in Los Angeles, 1987-2001"
- James Barber: “‘United Ghettos of America’: The Aesthetics of Intercultural Exchange and Bricolage in New York City and the Case of the Jamaican Influence on Hip-Hop (1987-1995)”
2020
Groove the City 2020 Conference. Constructing and Deconstructing Urban Spaces through Music, Leuphana University Lüneburg, February 13-15 2020
Paper:
- Dianne Violeta Mausfeld “'The radio won’t play you, but the neighborhood will' – Chicano Rap, Space & Identity in L.A., 1980s & 1990s"
2019
Workshop “Music and Society in the Americas / Música y sociedad en las Américas” of the Swiss School of Latin American Studies (SSLAS), University of Bern, October 4-5 2019 (organizer: Christian Büschges)
Papers:
- James Barber "Negotiating nationalism(s): the construction of “traditional narratives” and their impact on transcultural readings of reggae and hip-hop, 1970 to 1995."
- Dianne Violeta Mausfeld - “I’m from the varrio – East Los – Aztlán”: Place, Space & Identity in L.A. Chicano Rap (1980s & 1990s)
Workshop „Sound in Motion“, University of Bern, September 20-21 (Organizers: James Barber, Dianne Violeta Mausfeld, Victor da Souza Soares, Andrin Uetz)
27th Conference of the Latin American Studies Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place/ Boston Sheraton Hotel, Boston, May 24-27, 2019
Papers:
- Panel: “Performing identities. Representations of ethnicity, class, and gender in contemporary popular music in the Americas” (Organizer: Christian Büschges)
- James Barber: "Negotiating nationalism(s): the construction of “traditional narratives” and their impact on transcultural readings of reggae and hip-hop, 1970 to 1995."
- Dianne Violeta Mausfeld: “Mexican-American Cultural Signifiers in West Coast Hip-Hop during the 1980s & 1990s”
Doctoral Conference "Constructing and Contesting Community", University of Bern, May 9-10, 2019
Paper:
- James Barber: "Negotiating nationalism(s): the construction of “traditional narratives” and their impact on transcultural readings of reggae and hip-hop, 1970 to 1995."
Balancing The Mix: A Conference On Popular Music And Social Justice, University of Memphis, March 30, 2019
Paper:
- Dianne Violeta Mausfeld: “Chicano Rap & Chicano Cinema during the early 1990s. Narratives of Social Struggle and (in-) Justice”
2018
Doctoral Conference on Latin American History, University of Bern, May 4-5, 2018
Paper:
- Dianne Violeta Mausfeld: “Hip-Hop as a transcultural phenomenon. Mexican-American cultural signifiers in US-Hip-Hop”
