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Hip-hop Relevant in Academia
Loading ...The University of Wisconsin kicked off its fall lecture series “Getting Real: The Future of Hip-Hop Studies Scholarship” Monday with a seminar discussing the relevance of hip-hop in academia.
Headlined by keynote speakers Jeff Chang, American Book Award-winning author of “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation,” and Mark Anthony Neal, Brooklyn native and Duke University professor of African and African American studies, the lectures outlined hip-hop as a musical movement and explained that it expands further than our car radios and iPods.
The ripples extend further than the restrictive borders musical genre labels have the tendency to create, Neal said.
Neal added the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaign, Barack Obama’s historic presidential victory and many other key events in the history of the modern world were due in large part to hip-hop and its unseen elements.
According to Neal, hip-hop is not only a genre of music or even a movement but also a subject that can be studied academically.
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