The Evolution of Hip-Hop: A Hip-Hop Nation Story
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Copyright: 2021
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The Evolution of Hop-Hop: A Hip-Hop Nation Story is an inter-disciplinary telling of the story of a generation of youth who development a music genre and attendant culture, against all odds. It is a comprehensive accounting of the transformative and nation-building power of hip-hop, as well as the tale of successive generations of youth who build upon it and take it to even greater heights. Told from an Africana Studies vantage point that includes historical, socio-political, musicological, literary, psycho-social, and social justice perspectives, The Evolution of Hop-Hop: A Hip-Hop Nation Story is an extremely telling scholarly framing one of the most consequential stories of our times.
Chapter 1: Foundation
Chapter 2: The Challenge
Chapter 3: Roots of Rap
Chapter 4: Legacy: Music Continuity in Structure, Form, and Purpose
Chapter 5: Nationhood
Chapter 6: The Hip-Hop Generation
Chapter 7: Hip-Hop versus Racism
Chapter 8: Code: "How Do We Sing Our Songs in a Strange Land?"
Don Harrell is a native of Chesapeake, Virginia and a graduate of Union College, Schenectady, New York, where he was awarded the Union College UNITAS Diversity and Community Award, and the University of California, Los Angeles where he received the African American Student Association’s Outstanding Graduate Fellow Award and a University of California Education Abroad Program Fellowship, which enabled him to attend the University of Ghana’s Institute of African Studies and study and travel with the Ghana Dance Ensemble.
Professor Harrell-a storyteller who engages through a wide variety of mediums has taught The Music of Africa, African American Musical Heritage, African Drumming and Dance, and Meeting the Needs of African American Males at Coastal Carolina University; African Drumming and Dance at Columbia College; African American Humanities, and The Hip-Hop Journey at Valencia College; Introduction to Africana Studies, Black American Intellectual Thought, and The Evolution of Hip-Hop at the University of Central Florida; Introduction to African American Studies, and The Evolution of Hip-Hop at Florida Institute of Technology; and African Mythology, and The Evolution of Hip-Hop at Ringling College of Art and Design.
His professional career also includes producer of the award-winning soundtrack of Sharon Alile Larkin’s film A Different Image; founding member of Mori Nimba African Dance Company; producer of Drum Sermons: Folktales, Legends, and Myths from the Far Corners of African, producer of Moonlight Stories; producer of Orisirisi Traditional African Folklore at Walt Disney World EPCOT (Nov 1999-2008); producer/director of the documentary film series Eatonville Storytellers; publication of the article Why I Celebrate My Heritage (Pegasus Magazine, Fall 2020); and segment producer/performer of the Emmy nominated PBS GRRIFIC Neighbors TV Special (Spring 2021).
Professor Harrell is an ILI (Intercultural Leadership Institute Fellow) and a member of Alternate Roots-a member lead organization that supports the creation and presentation of original art rooted in communities of place, tradition, or spirit, and the Carter G. Woodson founded Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALAH).
He currently lives in Winter Garden, Florida with his wife Ilenbilu Adetutu where he maintains a career in academiaand continues to provide lectures, presentations, and performances centered around African and African American life and culture.