An elegiac retelling of rap’s origins, Hip-Hop Is History also ends with a sense of hope. Buffy (Darren Robinson) of the Fat Boys in Chicago, 1985. This Juneteenth featured, among other festivities, a ...
A genre essential, Jonathan Abrams tells the story of five decades of hip-hop using over three hundred interviews conducted over three years with the DJs, executives, producers, and artists who both ...
Black artists and designers have shaped fashion culture for many years. In that spirit, the McDonald's Change of Fashion designers, Larissa Muehleder, Shareef Mosby, Heart Roberts and Durrell Dupard ...
On a warm evening in early June, the Vista Pacifica Park in South Bay was buzzing with the summer activities one would expect to see in a tree-dotted open space — except for one. The basketball court ...
Theorizing hip hop dance -- African diaspora -- Feminist re-view of hip hop dance -- Theorizing hip hop dance and consumption -- Furthering globalization and capital formation -- Hip hop dance ...
Hip-hop is a cultural movement: A synthesis of cumulative Black artistic expression, urban hardship and resiliency born out of marginalization. Out of block parties in The Bronx, New York, in the ...
Describing my 2017 appointment as a faculty member, the University of Virginia dubbed me the school’s “first” hip-hop professor. Even if the job title and the historic nature of the appointment might ...
Questlove’s (Amir Thompson) newest (the eighth!) book, Hip-Hop Is History, with co-author Ben Greenman, is like a window looking deep into the workings of a pretty special hip-hop mind. Questlove is a ...