Draft:Adam de Paor-Evans

Adam de Paor-Evans (born November 15, 1971) is a British spatio-material theorist, ethnomusicologist and hip hop scholar whose work focuses primarily on the hidden spatial and invisible material histories of hip hop culture. Now a Fellow at University of Plymouth, he teaches across the discipline of architecture.[1][2]

de Paor-Evans qualified as an architect in 1999, after earning a Bachelor of Arts, a Post-graduate Diploma and Master of Arts in Architecture. He gained his PhD in Arts and Media in 2021 from UCLan, becoming the first person in the UK to complete a multi-modal Phd by publication in hip hop.[3]

de Paor-Evans' first book, Provincial Headz: British Hip Hop and Critical Regionalism,[4] was the first academic book on hip hop in the UK.

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