Beyond the Beats: Towards a Radical Analysis of the State of Hip-Hop

NCMR 2011 – Beyond the Beats: New Perspectives in Hip-Hop CultureWatch this video on YouTube Dr. Chris Tinson, Rosa Clemente, Mariama White-Hammond and Jared Ball participated at this year’s (2011) National Conference for Media Reform held in Boston, MA. and looked to expand and promote this concept of “hip-hop radicalism.”  Our panel probed the political state and direction of…

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Drawing Some Political Lines: Ideology in Hip-Hop

Rosa Clemente and Jared Ball addressed the topic of “The Rap on Politics” during the second annual “Is Hip-Hop History?” conference at the City College of New York’s Center for Worker Education.  In each case Clemente and Ball were clear to distinguish themselves as “hip-hop radicals” in order to draw some political lines and raise serious questions about…

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