Hip-hop culture penetrates every aspect of people's lives, from the way they dress and speak to walk and dance. Though mostly associated with music, hip-hop from its inception has always been a ...

Montsho Eshe grew up in Southwest Atlanta, a child of dance. Her first teacher was her mother, Billie Ann Gaither, who in the 1960s opened the Gaither School of Dance, one of the first Black-owned ...

Hip-hop dancers, breakers, emcees and choreographers converge at St. Paul’s Park Square Theatre for three days of “The Sota Movement: The Minnesota Street Dance Festival.” Featuring energetic dance ...

This summer marks a vital anniversary in the history of American music. Fifty years ago, on Aug. 11, 1973, a Jamaican-born DJ named Kool Herc helped his sister throw a back-to-school party in the ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Ashley Tate has danced and choreographed for most of her life. And the further she has gone with the art form, the more she has ...

Since 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, here are examples of rappers from Diddy to Lil Wayne embracing Ol’ Blue Eyes. In a 2008 campaign for Ciroc Vodka, Diddy used Frank Sinatra’s music to ...

Fifty-one years ago, the Dance Center of Columbia College launched a series of professional performances aimed at fulfilling one of the university’s key goals: to create a conduit between students and ...

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In this powerful closing chapter of our Hip Hop Studies series, Dr. Reiland Rabaka invites us to step beyond the music and into the deeper meaning of hip hop as a worldwide movement for change. While ...

Are you related to the Iyengar Yoga School?” comes a question, laced in an inimitable French accent, that leaves this writer ...

“The Hip Hop Movement” contains five “remixes” (as opposed to chapters) that offer a critical theory and alternative history of rap music and hip hop culture by examining their roots in the popular ...