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Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Charlie Hankin, trained in violin, performed fieldwork studying hip-hop in Cuba, Haiti and Brazil while also collaborating with local musicians. That work has culminated in the award-winning book "Break and Flow." He is pictured here in front of a microphone, wearing headphones playing the violin.

Strings and Beats: How One Scholar Turned His Fieldwork into Hip-Hop Collaborations

  • by Maria Sestito
  • July 01, 2025
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Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Charlie Hankin spent years studying rap music and community in Brazil, Cuba and Haiti. That research culminated into the award-winning book, "Break and Flow: Hip Hop Poetics in the Americas." He also became an unlikely collaborator with some local musicians he was working with.
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