Hip-hop is everywhere.. The phenomenon has threaded through society since it was born in the Bronx in 1973. Hip-hop is on radio, television, fashion and sports arenas. This year the movement is ...

PLAY Episode Date: July 3, 2025 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 ...

The Hip Hop Movement offers a critical theory and alternative history of rap music and hip hop culture by examining their roots in the popular musics and popular cultures of the Civil Rights Movement ...

Throughout “The Hip Hop Movement,” sociologist and musicologist Reiland Rabaka argues that rap music, hip hop culture and the Hip Hop Movement are as deserving of critical scholarly inquiry as ...

Relationship Between Money And Hip-Hop: From Grassroots Movement To Sotheby's NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with culture journalist William Ketchum III about Sotheby's hip-hop auction held this week.

The impact of music extends far beyond the play and pause buttons. Formed in the 1970s as an underground movement, hip-hop has expanded into various art forms and musical sub-genres – with rap ...