Hip-Hop: A Kennedy Center Guide

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Hip-Hop

For more on Hip-Hop and its impact on the arts and culture, connect to ArtsEdgE, the Kennedy Center’s digital learning project:

A KENNEDY CENTER GUIDE

www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org/students/hip-hop

david M. rubenstein Chairman Michael M. Kaiser President darrell M. Ayers Vice President, Education and Jazz Programming garth ross Vice President, Community Engagement

One Mic: Hip-Hop Culture Worldwide, a program of Arts Across America, is made possible through the generosity of the Charles E. smith Family Foundation.

www.kennedy-center.org/artsedge ArtsEdgE is an education program of the Kennedy Center. to learn more about education at the Kennedy Center, visit: www.kennedy-center.org/education

To me, hip-hop says, ‘Come as you are.’ We are family… It’s about you and me, connecting one to one. That’s why it has universal appeal.

—Hip-Hop pioneer DJ Kool Herc

the contents of this guide have been developed under a grant from the U.s. department of Education and do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.s. department of Education. You should not assume endorsement by the Federal government. © 2014 the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Whether you trace it to New York’s South Bronx or the villages of West Africa, hip-hop has become the voice of a generation demanding to be heard.

—author James McBride


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