Miss Lizzie Bowes
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My PhD project is a mix of musicology and literary studies, and focuses on contemporary Black-British rap music. I particularly consider the intersections of race, class, and political consciousness.
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I am a second year AHRC-funded PhD student at the University of Bristol, working across the Departments of Music, English, and affiliated with the University’s Centre for Black Humanities. My project considers a sub-genre of UK rap known as conscious rap, thinking about longer-form rap albums with politically conscious overtones as works of Black-British autofiction. I am interested in the ways in which UK rap artists craft narratives about themselves, their cultures and communities, and the creative licence they allow themselves when telling their stories. I have presented my work at conferences of the American Musicological Society, Modern Language Association, and the North East Modern Language Association.
Elsewhere, I am a Research Associate at the Black Music Research Unit, which has recently co-curated the first national exhibition of Black-British Music in collaboration with the British Library.