Hip Hop @50: Howard University Conference and Celebration

By Elizabeth Clark Lewis PhD

Scholars, artists, and media icons of Hip Hop convened at Howard University in October of 2023 for a two-day conference to celebrate Hip Hop's 50 years. The event was packed with sessions that examined the social and historical roots of Hip Hop. People who helped make Hip Hop a global force gave personal accounts of how the genre fueled their empire-building moves. Students and Howard alumni shared perspectives on the dynamic musical, cultural, and entrepreneurial landscape spawned by Hip Hop for five decades. Featuring many of the symposium's essays, this book looks at Hip Hop's impact from 1973, when it was born, to the present. While using empirical data to illustrate the scope, ethnic, gender, and regional diversity of the art form, this volume's emerging scholars and legendary alumni present profound insights and fresh examinations of the ways a challenged community, and its residents, created and nurtured the twentieth century's most transformational cultural phenomenon.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CY8N86D2
• ISBN13: 9798883784490
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"