Jason Ng
Biographic Data
| ID | 3737316 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Ng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason |
| FAMILY NAME | Ng |
| SIGNATURE | NG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Cork |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7641-0784 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Kawasaki, Hip Hop City
This paper examines Kawasaki City’s innovative cultural policy development, which strategically integrates hip hop culture into city-building initiatives. Long recognized as an industrial hub, over the last decade Kawasaki has reimagined its urban identity through youth culture and creative expression, positioning hip hop as a key driver for cultural regeneration and social cohesion. By supporting local hip hop practitioners, such as dancers, mus…
Hip-hop music producers’ labour in the digital music economy
There has been much debate concerning the changing nature of cultural production and distribution in the digital creative economy. Music production work has been especially affected by promotional conventions established by social media and music streaming platforms. This article critically builds atop perspectives on the platformisation of cultural production to investigate how independent hip-hop music producers develop their careers in the era…
Networking Global Hip Hop Knowledges
CIPHER: Hip Hop Interpellation is a global hip hop knowledge mapping project using ethnographic, digital, and arts practice research methods to better understand the emergences and flows of the culture's deeply local yet immanently global intertextualities. In this collaborative article, we network and develop ideas from six of CIPHER's global hip hop researchers, elaborating the project in method as well as theory. In so doing, we model our comm…
Hip-hop producer-hosts, beat battles, and online music production communities on Twitch
This article introduces a new creative industry actor, the ‘producer-host’, whose novel cultural practices combine several roles: that of performing artist, music production educator, event manager, livestream broadcaster, and community manager. Producer-hosts use the livestreaming platform Twitch (alongside other digital technologies) to run online beatmaking events with communal and participatory dynamics that indicate expanding uses of streami…
Worlding and new music cultures in Shanghai
Hip-hop music producers’ labour in the digital music economy
There has been much debate concerning the changing nature of cultural production and distribution in the digital creative economy. Music production work has been especially affected by promotional conventions established by social media and music streaming platforms. This article critically builds atop perspectives on the platformisation of cultural production to investigate how independent hip-hop music producers develop their careers in the era…
Worlding and new music cultures in Shanghai
Hip-hop producer-hosts, beat battles, and online music production communities on Twitch
This article introduces a new creative industry actor, the ‘producer-host’, whose novel cultural practices combine several roles: that of performing artist, music production educator, event manager, livestream broadcaster, and community manager. Producer-hosts use the livestreaming platform Twitch (alongside other digital technologies) to run online beatmaking events with communal and participatory dynamics that indicate expanding uses of streami…
Networking Global Hip Hop Knowledges
CIPHER: Hip Hop Interpellation is a global hip hop knowledge mapping project using ethnographic, digital, and arts practice research methods to better understand the emergences and flows of the culture's deeply local yet immanently global intertextualities. In this collaborative article, we network and develop ideas from six of CIPHER's global hip hop researchers, elaborating the project in method as well as theory. In so doing, we model our comm…
Hip-hop music producers’ labour in the digital music economy
There has been much debate concerning the changing nature of cultural production and distribution in the digital creative economy. Music production work has been especially affected by promotional conventions established by social media and music streaming platforms. This article critically builds atop perspectives on the platformisation of cultural production to investigate how independent hip-hop music producers develop their careers in the era…
Kawasaki, Hip Hop City
This paper examines Kawasaki City’s innovative cultural policy development, which strategically integrates hip hop culture into city-building initiatives. Long recognized as an industrial hub, over the last decade Kawasaki has reimagined its urban identity through youth culture and creative expression, positioning hip hop as a key driver for cultural regeneration and social cohesion. By supporting local hip hop practitioners, such as dancers, mus…
Music History and Culture (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Advertising (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work)