Most recently, Lewis published "Expertise" in the second volume of Rethinking Women's and Gender Studies edited by Catherine M. Finally, Lewis calls for a reconsideration of Hip Hop’s commitment to situated analyses and more precise attention to the ways scholars understand and name themselves in Hip Hop Studies, an opportune conversation as 2023 is the 30 th anniversary of Hip Hop Studies and the 50 th anniversary of Hip Hop. She does so by problematizing real Hip Hop norms for engaging with its origins and old heads recovering longstanding debates about what Hip Hop has been, is, and should be demonstrating the ways most mumble rappers practice citational and collaborative politics congruent with real Hip Hop taking a comprehensive approach to examining the Mumble Rap sound geographically situating Mumble Rap as southern and examining how Mumble Rap challenges dominant narratives about Hip Hop masculinity. Contrarily and controversially, Lewis argues Mumble Rap is, in fact, real Hip Hop. For example, critics claim mumble rappers are ignorant about Hip Hop history, disrespectful toward “old heads” (or Hip Hop elders), too similar, unskilled, prone to rapping about nonsense, and too feminine (e.g., wearing nail polish and rapping about depression). After earning her doctorate and serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor for one year, she entered the tenure-track and earned tenure in 2018.Ĭurrently, Lewis is drafting a single-authored manuscript entitled “Make Rappers Rap Again!: Interrogating the Mumble Rap ‘Crisis’” (under contract with Oxford University Press). In it, she interrogates the ways Mumble Rap has been subjugated within “real” Hip Hop (or the most authentic), sometimes even expelled altogether and situated as the catalyst for its demise. Lewis joined the Colorado College faculty as a Riley Scholars-in-Residence Program Dissertation Fellow during the 2010-11 AY.
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