Ian Condry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Associate Professor
Foreign Languages and Literatures
Cambridge, Massachusetts
condry@mit.edu
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(508) 314-2567
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Ian Condry is a cultural anthropologist and associate professor in Foreign Languages and Literatures with joint appointments in Comparative Media Studies and in Anthropology. He is also the author of Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization (2006, Duke University Press), which w...
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Ian Condry is a cultural anthropologist and associate professor in Foreign Languages and Literatures with joint appointments in Comparative Media Studies and in Anthropology. He is also the author of Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization (2006, Duke University Press), which was translated into Japanese and published as Nihon no Hip-Hop (2009, NTT Publications). The book explores ethnographically how hip-hop took root and developed in Japan, with a focus on Japanese musicians and their fans, including fieldwork in Tokyo nightclubs and recording studios.
Overall, he is interested in "globalization from below," that is, how cultural movements spread transnationally without little push from corporations and governments. He is also founder and organizer of the MIT/Harvard Cool Japan research project. Since 2006, Cool Japan presents seminars, conferences and artistic performances aimed at examining the cultural connections, dangerous distortions and critical potential of popular culture. He received his BA from Harvard in Government in 1987 and a PhD in Anthropology from Yale in 1999. He has been teaching at MIT since 2002.
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Overall, he is interested in "globalization from below," that is, how cultural movements spread transnationally without little push from corporations and governments. He is also founder and organizer of the MIT/Harvard Cool Japan research project. Since 2006, Cool Japan presents seminars, conferences and artistic performances aimed at examining the cultural connections, dangerous distortions and critical potential of popular culture. He received his BA from Harvard in Government in 1987 and a PhD in Anthropology from Yale in 1999. He has been teaching at MIT since 2002.
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