It's impossible to overlook hip-hop's profound impact on the global music landscape as it celebrates its 50th year. Beyond its birthplace in the Bronx, New York, this genre has transcended borders, ...
From the early seventies’ Bloc Parties in the Bronx to musicians streaming songs to audiences worldwide, today’s hip hop scene is borderless. But for the African artists making waves worldwide, ...
Reviewed by Luis Gimenez in African music (Grahamstown, South Africa) 9 (3) 2013, pages 192-195. Reviewed by Caroline Mose in Journal of African cultural studies (London) 25 (2) June 2013, pages ...
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Artist Selorm Attikpo explores Ghanaian hip-hop history at ADAMA exhibit
On a warm Friday evening at the African Diaspora Art Museum of Atlanta, in a room filled with the low hum of conversation, ...
2024 also bore witness to U.S. breakthroughs for African artists, Young Thug's release from jail, Drake's surprise legal petition and Sean Combs' ongoing legal woes. By Gail Mitchell Well, 2024 is ...
(CNN) — Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at ...
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I Am Hip Hop bets on collaborations to connect African creatives
What started nearly a decade ago as a modest concert series has grown into something bigger--a meeting point for rappers, dancers, graffiti artists, fashion designers and other creatives looking to ...
The story of hip-hop’s beginnings has been highly contested, but it begins in the Bronx on Aug. 11, 1973. DJ Kool Herc’s sister, Cindy, is hosting a back-to-school party in their apartment complex, ...
Introduction / P. Khalil Saucier -- Part One: African noise : mapping African hip-hop from the East, West, and South: Rappin' Griots : producing the local in Senegalese hip-hop / Catherine Appert ; ...
A new musical blending contemporary hip-hop music and Catholic liturgy debuted Feb. 14-16 at the Lyke House, a Catholic Newman Center serving historically Black colleges in Atlanta. The "Hip-Hop Mass" ...
Hip-hop music is celebrating 50 years, and since its inception the impact it’s had on a generation has been never-ending. Since it first began, the genre has always been a way to allow young people to ...
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