Critical Minded. A Celebration of 20 years of Hip Hop Scholarship in CUNY

20 years ago the Institute for Studies in American Music in Brooklyn College published its 35th monograph: Critical Minded. New Approaches to Hip Hop Studies. The book, edited by Ellie Hisama and Evan Rapport, featured innovative pieces examining the genre's changing dynamics at the turn of the century, all from current faculty and graduate students at the City University of New York.

Today, we use this landmark in the history of our Institute (now the Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music) to celebrate the longlasting legacy and the evergrowing relevance of Hip Hop scholarship emerging from CUNY.

Join us in a free symposium where you will hear the papers that made it into this year's American Music Review journal, the Critical Minded anniversary issue, all of which were written by CUNY graduate students, faculty and alumni. A keynote speech by the 2004 monograph's editors Ellie Hisama and Evan Rapport will accompany the paper presentations.

A program including authors' information, as well as details about the live performances in between presentations will be shared soon.

This is a free event, but RSVPs are encouraged to help us plan ahead.

The symposium will be livestreamed.

Host or Publisher Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music