The cultural and musical motion generally known as hip-hop celebrates 50 years at the moment, August 11.
Michigan State University consultants Emery Petchauer and Ruth Nicole Brown clarify what marks August 11, 2023, because the fiftieth anniversary of hip-hop and dig into the significance of the milestone.
Petchauer, a professor within the English division, focuses on the aesthetic practices of city arts, significantly hip-hop tradition, and their connections to instructing, studying, and dwelling. He is the writer of the primary scholarly examine of hip-hop tradition on faculty campuses, and the co-editor of Schooling Hip-Hop: Expanding Hip-Hop Based Education Across the Curriculum (Teachers College Press, 2013 ) .
Brown is an MSU Research Foundation Professor and the inaugural chair of the African American and African research division. She is the writer of Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip-Hop Feminist Pedagogy (Peter Lang, 2009), and coauthor of Wish to Live: The Hip-Hop Feminism Pedagogy Reader (Peter Lang, 2012) with Chamara Kwakye, an instructional specialist within the MSU Department of African American and African Studies.
Source: Michigan State University
