[IRTalk] Hip-hop professor looks to open doors with world's first peer-reviewed rap album

[Leti Kleyn]

 Hip-hop professor looks to open doors with world’s first peer-reviewed rap
album

The situation is similar in academia. That is, in order to establish
oneself as a serious scholar, an academic must get their work – typically
some sort of written product – published in a peer-reviewed journal, which
is a journal in which works are evaluated by others in a given field to
ensure their relevance and quality.

As a rap artist and academic, I wondered if I could do the same thing with
my new album. Could I get my album “published” through an academic press?

Thankfully, I have discovered that the answer was “yes.” In August 2020, my
album became what Michigan Publishing described as the “*first ever
peer-reviewed rap album published by a university press*
<https://www.publishing.umich.edu/stories-of-impact/rethinking-peer-review>.”
This is a development that I believe could open doors for scholars from all
kinds of different backgrounds – including but not limited to hip-hop
scholars – to contribute new forms of knowledge.

*https://theconversation.com/hip-hop-professor-looks-to-open-doors-with-worlds-first-peer-reviewed-rap-album-153761?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%2016%202021%20-%201890818468&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%2016%202021%20-%201890818468+CID_1f8b35a922a7f55bf911c63b71a75fb6&utm_source=campaign_monitor_africa&utm_term=Hip-hop%20professor%20looks%20to%20open%20doors%20with%20worlds%20first%20peer-reviewed%20rap%20album*
<https://theconversation.com/hip-hop-professor-looks-to-open-doors-with-worlds-first-peer-reviewed-rap-album-153761?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%2016%202021%20-%201890818468&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%2016%202021%20-%201890818468+CID_1f8b35a922a7f55bf911c63b71a75fb6&utm_source=campaign_monitor_africa&utm_term=Hip-hop%20professor%20looks%20to%20open%20doors%20with%20worlds%20first%20peer-reviewed%20rap%20album>

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* Dr Leti Kleyn *
*Research assistant to Professor Burton *PhD (UP), MPhil (UP), MA (UNISA)

        Cell +27 (0)82 347 9982
Email leti.kleyn at up.ac.za
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       * Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences *

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*Research fellow in the Faculty of Humanities*

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