[SOA] Rock Hall hosts lecture on the early years of Hip Hop

[Jennie Thomas]

[cid:image003.jpg at 01CEA4C1.C5308DA0]Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum welcomes Loren Kajikawa of the University of Oregon
for lecture "Before Rap: DJs, MCs, and Pre-1979 Hip Hop Performances"



WHAT:

LECTURE BY LOREN KAJIKAWA - "BEFORE RAP: DJs, MCs, AND PRE-1979 HIP HOP PERFORMANCES"

WHEN:
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 7pm

WHERE:
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Foster Theater (4th Floor)


TO RSVP:

This event is FREE.  RSVPs are recommended, but not required.  To RSVP, visit http://tickets.rockhall.com.



VIEW ONLINE:

Can't make it to Cleveland for this event?  No worries! This event will be live streamed on rockhall.com<http://rockhall.com>.   You can find the stream here<http://rockhall.com/event/AMS-Kajikawa/live/>.  A webcast will also be made available on the AMS web site in the coming weeks.


LECTURE DESCRIPTION:
Kajikawa's lecture will focus on the world of hip-hop music before "Rapper's Delight", the multi-platinum single that propelled The Sugarhill Gang - and rap music - into the national spotlight late in 1979.  Drawing on various oral histories, autobiographies, and pre-1979 bootleg recordings, Kajikawa will discuss the work of pioneering DJs and MCs with the goal of demonstrating how formal analysis and questions related to historical performance practice can serve to generate new knowledge in popular music research.  These early recordings are especially notable for their musical spontaneity - one that distinguishes them from later studio-produced rap music.



ABOUT KAJIKAWA
Kajikawa serves as contributing editor for all hip hop-related entries to Amerigrove II. His article "The Sound of Struggle: Black Nationalism and Asian American Jazz in the 1980s" appeared in Jazz/Not Jazz: The Music and its Boundaries, ed. David Ake, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, and Daniel Goldmark (University of California Press, 2012).



The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and the American Musicological Society lecture series consists of two events each year that feature members of the Society presenting engaging lectures on topics relevant to the mission of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and the holdings of its Library and Archives.  The series brings scholarly work on rock and roll and popular music to a broader audience and showcases the musicological work of top scholars in the field.  For more information about these events, visit http://ams-net.org/RRHOFM-lectures.


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