Hip-Hop America

In a conversation moderated by Los Angeles Times music critic Ann Powers, USC School of Cinematic Arts professor Todd Boyd, USC Annenberg School for Communication professor Josh Kun, and American studies and ethnicity doctoral candidate Imani Kai Johnson (USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences) reflect on hip-hop's complex, 30-year history, panelists explore its growing influence in American popular culture and politics. The program, held October 8, 2007, was sponsored by Visions and Voices: The USC Arts and Humanities Initiative, USC Libraries and Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities.

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[thegreeensky]

nice discussion very interesting..

[ANewEarth07]

A very interesting discussion. Hip-Hop is never quite what we think it is. And I think that Beyonce does do something interesting to the genre/movement, and not because of her husband, but rather because of the way she references hip-hop to her repetoire, eg. songs like Diva and referencing Crank Dat and Da Stanky Leg into her stage choreography...

[noclueofficial]

wow