Add to ORKGMy story is about the defunct relationship between hip-hop and the city where it was born, New York. While cities like Nashville and New Orleans tout their love for the musical forms that were born in their cities from top to bottom, the people of New York love the music and culture that calls the city home but the powers that be on a gubernatorial and municipal level keep it at an arms length. In this piece I explore why and how this disconnect exists through street sign legislation, a battleground area where petitions to co-name streets after rappers have come and gone unfulfilled
For over four decades, hip-hop has been a part of the American soundscape, drawing from influences o...
St. Louis, regularly listed as one of the most segregated cities in the United States, has long been...
When considering the context of hip hop culture, one can be forgiven for immediately imagining the d...
My story is about the defunct relationship between hip-hop and the city where it was born, New York....
Hip-hop’s history is tied to the Bronx during a time when the bough faced extreme challenges. This t...
As a subculture created by black and Latino men and women in the late 1970s in the United States, hi...
Hip-Hop Culture emerged in the early 1970s from Black and Latinx youth living in the South Bronx. At...
Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign rhetoric about violence in Chicago spatialized a narrative...
In a losing battle against street artists, “Make your mark in society, not on society” was the state...
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Rochester, 2012.The idea of"scene" invokes multivalent physical and non...
The use of place in Hip Hop is often symbolic. Specific spaces and places are used to signify not ju...
From the Washington University Senior Honors Thesis Abstracts (WUSHTA), Spring 2018. Published by th...
Among the many contributions of The Bronx, one that does not receive as much academic attention as i...
This thesis examines the emergence of the Hip Hop movement in the 1970s in areas of New York City of...
Forging connections across the fields of American, French, and African diaspora history, this disser...
For over four decades, hip-hop has been a part of the American soundscape, drawing from influences o...
St. Louis, regularly listed as one of the most segregated cities in the United States, has long been...
When considering the context of hip hop culture, one can be forgiven for immediately imagining the d...
My story is about the defunct relationship between hip-hop and the city where it was born, New York....
Hip-hop’s history is tied to the Bronx during a time when the bough faced extreme challenges. This t...
As a subculture created by black and Latino men and women in the late 1970s in the United States, hi...
Hip-Hop Culture emerged in the early 1970s from Black and Latinx youth living in the South Bronx. At...
Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign rhetoric about violence in Chicago spatialized a narrative...
In a losing battle against street artists, “Make your mark in society, not on society” was the state...
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Rochester, 2012.The idea of"scene" invokes multivalent physical and non...
The use of place in Hip Hop is often symbolic. Specific spaces and places are used to signify not ju...
From the Washington University Senior Honors Thesis Abstracts (WUSHTA), Spring 2018. Published by th...
Among the many contributions of The Bronx, one that does not receive as much academic attention as i...
This thesis examines the emergence of the Hip Hop movement in the 1970s in areas of New York City of...
Forging connections across the fields of American, French, and African diaspora history, this disser...
For over four decades, hip-hop has been a part of the American soundscape, drawing from influences o...
St. Louis, regularly listed as one of the most segregated cities in the United States, has long been...
When considering the context of hip hop culture, one can be forgiven for immediately imagining the d...