Category: Education
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Local Durham, NC Student Needs Help To Travel To China #GetNoah2China
David Noah Thompson, IV is a student at Hillside New Tech in Durham, NC and is hoping to travel to China this year. He’s now in his third year as a member of the Hillside High School Drama Department. He has been in several productions including “Dreamgirls”, “In the Heights” and “A Raisin in the…
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Events: Bridgin’ Gaps & Spittin’ Knowledge: A Forum on the Evolution of Hip-Hop April 16, 2013
Students enrolled in Dr. Perry Hall's AFAM 356 History of Hip Hop class at UNC-Chapel Hill decided to end their semester with a celebration and discussion on hip hop's past and present. There will be a panel on lyricism, women in hip hop, independent artistry and more. The evening's program will also have live performances…
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Events: Beats For The Block Christian Hip Hop Concert April 27, 2013
This semester, students enrolled in the Community Programming and Planning course at UNC-Greensboro were divided into groups and responsible for partnering with a local agency to plan an event. One particular group chose to work with the YWCA of High Point, NC and decided to put on a christian hip hop concert. The planning, execution…
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Carolina To East Africa: Pierce Freelon (@Durhamite) & Apple Juice Kid’s (@AppleJuiceKid) Beat Making Lab: Goma, Conga (Video)
(L) Pierce Freelon, (R) Apple Juice Kid Back in May 2012 UNC-Chapel Hill’s Beat Making Lab presented one of it’s first musical projects, Tar Heel Tracks. Students enrolled in the Lab created all thirteen of the album’s instrumental tracks. It was their final project of the semester. Every beat on the album sampled a North Carolina…
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Hip Hop Science: Squids Get Turnt Up When Listening To Hip Hop Music (Video)
Backyard Brains is a company that uses hands-on experiments to teach concepts in neuroscience. They along with marine biologists at Woods Hole, MA recently conducted an experiment which showed how squid physically react when exposed to hip hop music. Squid are gifted with the ability to camoflage, which they use to blend into (or stand…
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Life + Times (@LifeandTimes) Presents School Days: New York Academy of Art (Video)
Life + Times’ latest culture excursion takes us on a visit to the New York Academy of Art (NYAA). The academy was originally founded by Andy Warhol and offers studio skills in painting, drawing, and sculpture. In "School Days" the president of NYAA David Kratz talks about the student’s high quality work, environment, how the academy’s…
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9th Wonder (@9thWonderMusic) Selected For Harvard University’s Hip Hop Archives’ Residential Fellowship Research Program (News)
How dope is this? Back in December 2011 Harvard University’s Hip Hop Archive selected 9th Wonder to be the first lecturer in their new series, "Cutting Edge". Last week the Hip Hop Archive chose 9th Wonder to be an archive fellow in their Residential Fellowship Research Program. The residency will be for one year. Dr.…
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Hip Hop History Lesson: How Traditional Slave Dances Evolved Into ‘The Dougie’, ‘The Butterfly’ & More (Video)
Growing up older folks would always claim that none of the dances us kids did were new, and now here’s further proof. Thomas F. DeFrantz is a Duke University professor of African, African American studies and dance. In a new series of videos he demonstrates how dance moves such as Buck, Wing, and Jig, that…
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9th Wonder (@9thWonderMusic) Channel One News Story ‘Glory Road: 9th Wonder: How This Producer is Changing Hip Hop’ (Video)
California’s Channel One News recently produced and aired a news story on how 9th Wonder is changing hip hop. Duke University’s Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, who co-teaches a class with 9th titled "Sampling Soul" at Duke University, is featured in the story as well. In the story 9th Wonder discusses exploring the black disapora of…