Mark Campbell
Creative Research
Founder of the Northside Hip Hop Archive, Mark (aka Grumps) is a dj, curator and scholar. As a co-founder at the Bigger than Hip Hop Show at CHRY 105.5fm, Mark hosted and djed on the show from 1997-2015.
Since 2010, Mark has curated several exhibitions highlighting Canadian hip hop history, such as, The T-Dot Pioneers Trilogy from 2010-2013, For the Record—An Idea of the North, Mixtapes: Hip Hop’s Lost Archive, “I Was There!” Steelcity Edition and ..Everything Remains Raw: Photographing Toronto Hip Hop Culture from Analogue to Digital.
From 2015 – 2018, Mark served as Board Member at the Ontario Arts Council.
As a scholar, Mark has published widely with essays appearing in the Journal of World Popular Music, Critical Studies in Improvisation, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society and the CLR Journal of Caribbean Ideas.