Journalist speaks about hip-hop
Niketa Reed
Issue date: 3/5/08 Section: Life & Style
For journalist Jeff Chang, hip-hop is not only a pastime, but is also a representation of a person. The noted hip-hop scholar will hold an informal question and answer session at 3:30 p.m. and a lecture at 7 p.m. today in the auditorium at Willard J. Walker Hall.
Chang's visit and lecture, sponsored by the Ford Foundation, the Office of the Provost and the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, are a part of the Difficult Dialogues series. The lecture will speak on hip-hop as a tool in for people in marginalized populations and its history, particularly in activism, according to a press release.
The series stems off of the Difficult Dialogues Initiative program launched and funded under the Ford Foundation in Spring 2005. Various colleges and universities submit applications for stipends to conduct projects that promote academic freedom and religious, cultural, and political pluralism on their campuses, which prepare students to constructively engage with difficult and sensitive topics, according to the Difficult Dialogues Web site.
Chang's first book, "Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip hop Generation," examines the last three decades of hip-hop as it culminated from a music genre in the early 1970s into an identifiable culture.
He has also written for the Village Voice, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the Los Angeles Weekly, Vibe, Spin, The Nation, Mother Jones, and the Washington Post, according to a press release.
He is credited as a founding editor of ColorLines magazine and co-founder of the influential hip-hop independent label SoleSides. He is also credited as an organizer of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention and board member for various organizations working for social change in youth and community organizing, media justice, culture and the arts, according to his Web site, cantstopwontstop.com.
Chang earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California-Berkeley and a master's degree in Asian American studies from the University of California-Los Angeles, the former acquired during his work as a community, labor and student organizer, and lobbyist for students of the California State University system, according to the press release.
Chang's visit and lecture, sponsored by the Ford Foundation, the Office of the Provost and the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, are a part of the Difficult Dialogues series. The lecture will speak on hip-hop as a tool in for people in marginalized populations and its history, particularly in activism, according to a press release.
The series stems off of the Difficult Dialogues Initiative program launched and funded under the Ford Foundation in Spring 2005. Various colleges and universities submit applications for stipends to conduct projects that promote academic freedom and religious, cultural, and political pluralism on their campuses, which prepare students to constructively engage with difficult and sensitive topics, according to the Difficult Dialogues Web site.
Chang's first book, "Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip hop Generation," examines the last three decades of hip-hop as it culminated from a music genre in the early 1970s into an identifiable culture.
He has also written for the Village Voice, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the Los Angeles Weekly, Vibe, Spin, The Nation, Mother Jones, and the Washington Post, according to a press release.
He is credited as a founding editor of ColorLines magazine and co-founder of the influential hip-hop independent label SoleSides. He is also credited as an organizer of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention and board member for various organizations working for social change in youth and community organizing, media justice, culture and the arts, according to his Web site, cantstopwontstop.com.
Chang earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California-Berkeley and a master's degree in Asian American studies from the University of California-Los Angeles, the former acquired during his work as a community, labor and student organizer, and lobbyist for students of the California State University system, according to the press release.
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