Mark V. Campbell
Mark V. Campbell | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1978 (age 47–48) |
| Other names | DJ Grumps |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Thesis | Remixing Relationality: 'Other/ed' Sonic Modernities of our Present (2010) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Musicologist; Black studies scholar |
| Sub-discipline | Afrodiasporic music; hip-hop archives; remix cultures |
| Institutions | University of Toronto |
| Website | https://markvcampbell.ca/ |
Mark V. Campbell (born 1978) is a Canadian academic, disc jockey (stage name DJ Grumps[1]) and writer. He was raised in Scarborough, Ontario. He is an associate professor, Associate Chair of Research and Program Director of Music at University of Toronto Scarborough.[2] Campbell's work focuses on conceptions of the human and sonic innovations within Black music.
Career
Campbell was the 2020-21 Jackman Humanities Institute Fellow[3] and a Connaught New Researcher Fellow at the University of Toronto.[4] Campbell was formerly Senior Research Associate of the FCAD Forum for Cultural Strategies and adjunct professor at the School of Media, Toronto Metropolitan University.[5]
Campbell was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Regina.[6] He is a research and former postdoctoral fellow with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation, University of Guelph.[7]
Campbell is affiliated with the Association of Canadian Archivists[8] and the American Musicological Society.[9]
Northside Hip Hop Archive
He is the founder of the Northside Hip Hop Archive, an online archive started in 2010 that digitizes oral histories, event flyers, posters and analog recordings that document the beginnings of Canadian hip-hop in the 1980s and 1990s.[10]
Exhibitions
Campbell has curated several exhibitions of Canadian hip-hop archival material: Still Tho: Aesthetic Survival in Hip Hop's Visual Art at the Âjagemô Exhibition Space at the Canada Council for the Arts;[11] ...Everything Remains Raw: Photographing Toronto’s Hip Hop Culture from Analogue to Digital at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection;[12] For the Record: ‘An Idea of the North’ at the TD Gallery at the Toronto Reference Library;[13] Mixtapes: Hip Hop’s Lost Archive at Gallery 918;[14] T-Dot Pioneers 3.0: The Future Must be Replenished at Soho Lobby Gallery;[15] T-Dot Pioneers 2011: The Glenn Gould Remix at the Glenn Gould Studio at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre;[16] T-Dot Pioneers 2010 at the Toronto Free Gallery.[17]
DJ work
Campbell became a disc jockey in 1994[1] and co-hosted the Bigger than Hip-Hop Show on community radio from 1997 to 2015.[18]
Published academic work
Campbell published Afrosonic Life in 2022 which focuses on “the role sonic innovations in the African diaspora play in articulating methodologies for living the afterlife of slavery.”[19]
Selected publications
- 2025: Hip-Hop Archives The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production (co-editor), Intellect Books
- 2022: Afrosonic Life, Bloomsbury Academic
- 2020: We Still Here: Hip Hop North of the 49th Parallel (co-editor), McGill–Queen's University Press
- 2018: ...Everything Remains Raw: Photographing Toronto Hip Hop Culture from Analogue to Digital, Goose Lane Editions
References
- ^ a b Bin Shikhan, Amani (2024-07-16). "Toronto's hip-hop building blocks: An oral history with DJ Grumps". Redbull. Archived from the original on 2024-09-09. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
- ^ "Mark Campbell | Department of Arts, Culture and Media". www.utsc.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
- ^ Ndikubwayezu, Gilbert (2021-04-23). "Charting Hip Hop's Course". U of T Magazine. Retrieved 2025-09-29.
- ^ Adamopoulos, Tina (2020-09-17). "Preserving the history of hip-hop earns honour for researcher". University of Toronto Scarborough News. Retrieved 2025-09-29.
- ^ Darville, Jordan (2017-04-18). "How Canada's Hip-Hop History Can Guide Its Cultural Future". The FADER. Retrieved 2025-09-29.
- ^ "Mark V. Campbell appointed to the Ontario Arts Council board". Ontario Arts Council. 2016-03-02.
- ^ "Mark V. Campbell". IICSI. Retrieved 2025-09-29.
- ^ "2021 Virtual Conference". archivists.ca. Retrieved 2025-09-29.
- ^ "Call & Response: The Works That Resonate (2021 NYU/AMS Lecture)". Musicology Now. 2021-02-25. Retrieved 2025-09-29.
- ^ Winsa, Patty (2017-03-12). "Before Drake, there was Maestro, Michie Mee and mix tapes: Toronto's hip-hop archive takes shape". The Toronto Star. ISSN 0319-0781. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
- ^ "Still Tho exhibition tour video". Canada Council for the Arts. 2022-03-21. Retrieved 2025-09-29.
- ^ Hampton, Chris (2018-03-15). "McMichael gallery showcases archive of Canadian hip-hop culture". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
- ^ Ricci, Talia (1 March 2019). ""New exhibit shares how the city's hip-hop scene evolved through the decades"". CBC News. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ Dundas, Camille (2023-11-09). "Hamilton Takes Its Place In Hip Hop History". ByBlacks.com. Retrieved 2025-09-29.
- ^ Hunter, Lorien R. (Spring 2014). "Talking Across the Tables: A Conversation with Dr. Mark V. Campbell" (PDF). Spectator (34.1): 49.
- ^ "CBC Celebrates over 25 years of Canadian Hip Hop with the Hip Hop Summit". CBC. 23 February 2011. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ McAndrew, Matthew (2010-03-06). "Documenting the Toronto scene with T-Dot Pioneers and Northside Hip Hop". www.blogto.com. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
- ^ "Mark V. Campbell". Blackwood Gallery. Retrieved 2025-09-29.
- ^ "Afrosonic Life". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 2022-03-19.