PEOPLE
Sudiipta Dowsett
Sudiipta Dowsett is a Research Fellow in Ethnomusicology at the Institute for Musicology, University of Cologne, Germany. She is also Assistant Editor of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) Journal. Her research explores the decolonial capacities of Hip Hop as embodied practice in South Africa and Australia, highlighting its critical role in maintaining and revitalising Indigenous Ancestral modes of vocality and being. With a strong commitment to collaborative, decolonial and co-designed methods her work seeks to build resources and capacity for community-led futures. Music releases featuring collaborative songwriting as method include the K’ltsha Kulture (Monotoca Music, 2024) album and Imbokodo Rise (Independent, 2025).
Di Rodger
Di Rodger is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Adelaide University who researches popular music, digital media, and the youth arts sector – primarily through a long-term commitment to studying Hip Hop culture and First Nations music in Australia. She is a Hip Hop fan who has been researching how people in Australia practice and understand Hip Hop for nearly twenty years. She is currently working on a project exploring how people remember, archive and perform Hip-Hop histories, work that informed her book The Calling (Bloomsbury 33 ⅓ 2023). She is co-editor of Representing Hip Hop Histories, Politics and Practices in Australia (Routledge 2024).
Moses Iten
Moses Iten is a DJ/music producer, ethnomusicologist and Teaching Fellow in Arts & Cultural Management at the School of Business, Deakin University. He is also the Managing Editor of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Music and Dance Culture. His practice-informed research focuses on the intersections of music, technology and society, most recently focusing on Australia’s contribution to global sound system culture for the Sonic Street Technologies research project, coordinated from Goldsmiths, University of London. His two decades of industry experience in the media and community cultural development sectors include roles as a performer, journalist, radio broadcaster, event manager, workshop host and mentor for children, youth, migrant and refugee communities.