The Future of Hip-Hop Studies @ The University of Wisconsin

THE OFFICE OF MULTICULTURAL ARTS INITIATIVES
THE HAVENS CENTER
THE OFFICE OF THE VICE PROVOST FOR DIVERSITY & CLIMATE
@ The University of Wisconsin at Madison

Present

JEFF CHANG
American Book Award Winner

&

MARK ANTHONY NEAL
Duke University


GETTING REAL: THE FUTURE OF HIP HOP STUDIES SCHOLARSHIP
Monday, September 14, 7pm,1100 Grainger Hall

This is the opening event of a 9 week series on "The Future of Hip Hop Studies Scholarship." Please join us for the rest of the series. All talks are free and open to the public. Monday nights, 7pm, 1100 Grainger. For more information, call 890-1006 or visit the Havens Center website: www.havenscenter.org.

Co-sponsoredby Afro-American Studies, the Art Department, Global Studies, the History Department, the School of Education, the School of Music, the Sociology Department, the Vice Provost for Faculty & Staff, & the Womens Studies Program.


JEFF CHANG has written extensively on culture, politics, the arts, and music. He is a 2008 USA Ford Fellow in Literature and a winner of the 2008 North Star News Prize. His first book, Cant Stop Wont Stop, garnered many honors, including the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award. He was a founding editor of ColorLines magazine, and a Senior Editor/Director at Russell Simmons 360hiphop.com. He has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, Vibe, The Nation, and Mother Jones, among others. In 1993, he co-founded and ran the influential hip-hop indie label, SoleSides, now Quannum Projects, helping launch the careers of DJ Shadow, Blackalicious, Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truth Speaker. He has helped produce over a dozen records, including the godfathers of gangsta rap, the Watts Prophets. After being politicized by the anti-apartheid and anti-racist movements at the University of California at Berkeley, Jeff worked as a community, labor and student organizer, and as a lobbyist for the students of the California State University system. He was an organizer of the inaugural National Hip-Hop Political Convention and has served as a board member for several organizations working for change through youth and community organizing, media justice, culture, the arts, and hip-hop activism.

MARK ANTHONY NEAL is Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University. He is engaged in interdisciplinary scholarly work in the fields of African-American, Cultural, and Gender Studies that draws upon modes of inquiry informed by the fields of literary theory, urban sociology, social history, postmodern philosophy, Queer theory and most notably popular culture. His broad project is to interrogate popular culture--music, television, film, and literature--produced within the context of Afro-diasporic expressive cultures. Neal is the author of four books, What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1998), Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (2002), Songs in the Keys of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation (2003) and New Black Man: Rethinking Black Masculinity (2005). Neal is also the co-editor (with Murray Forman) of Thats the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (2004). A frequent commentator for National Public Radios News and Notes with Farai Chideya Neal also contributes to several on-line media outlets, including NewsOne.com. Neals blog Critical Noir appears at Vibe Magazine.