Matt Miller
From Digital Innovations @ Emory Libraries
Matt Miller is an Editorial Associate and the Digital Media Coordinator for Southern Spaces at the Robert W. Woodruff Library. Beginning in Fall 2007, he will be a Robert W. Woodruff Library Fellow.
[edit] Background
Matt has a BA in Spanish from Emory University and is currently working on a PhD at Emory University.
[edit] Interests
Matt's interests include rap music, New Orleans, and documentary filmmaking.
[edit] Publications
- 2006. "Bounce: Rap Music and Cultural Survival in New Orleans." Hyphenation, 1.
- 2004. "Rap's Dirty South: From Subculture to Pop Culture." Journal of Popular Music Studies 16(2): 175-212.
- 2003. "Atlanta: City without a Sound?" Footnotes 31(5): 1, 7 (Second author with A. Tullos, T.J. Dowd.)
[edit] Presentations
- 2006."Uma Perspectiva Afro-Caraíba sobre a Música Rap de Nova Orleans." Diaspora Africana e Escravidão. Universidade Federal do Paraná; Curitiba, Brazil.
- 2006. "Mia X, 'The Ghetto Sarah Lee:' Identity, Power and Representation in the Life and Work of a Woman Gangsta Rapper from New Orleans." Hip Hop's Defiant Divas (Then and Now). Vanderbilt Univ.; Nashville, TN.
- 2003. "Rap's Dirty South." MiniConference on the Sociology of Music. Sociology of Culture Section, American Sociological Assoc.; Atlanta, GA.
