Hiphop and the Global Influence of American Cultural Politics

Hiphop and the Global Influence of American Cultural Politics
Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 7:00pm (doors open at 6 pm)
Storer Auditorium / UM School of Business Administration
5250 University Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146

*PATH artists will present an introduction to the elements of Hip Hop starting at 6 pm.

Fans are generally unaware of the political, cultural, and aesthetic aspects of hiphop, especially its complex ideology regarding citizenship, knowledge, truth, language, representation, innovation, and inclusion. Global hiphop mainly conveys progressive American politics of gender, racial, and social class inclusion, transforming both American and global politics in the process.

“In The Real Hiphop, Marcyliena Morgan has written a brilliant account of the origins of hiphop and the process through which it is created and evolves, from its most elemental and raw forms into the highly processed and polished versions that have become the lingua franca of popular American culture. Morgan – the founder of the world’s only hiphop archive – raises the analysis of hiphop to an entirely new level of scholarship, explicating it as a linguistic, sociological, and political phenomenon.” 
— Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University

Marcyliena Morgan, Professor of African and African American Studies, is founding executive director of the Hiphop Archive and Research Institute at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University. Dr. Morgan has conducted field research on the African Diaspora, as well as on identity and language in the USA, England, and the Caribbean. Her books include Discourse and Power in African American Culture (2002), The Real Hiphop: Battling for Knowledge, Power, and Respect in the Underground (2008), and Speech Communities (2014).