Thu 12/5 @ 7PM
You have only until January 5 to see the Rock Hall’s exhibit Holla If You Hear Me: Hip Hop at 50 in its entirely (Part of it will be open through February 18).
You can catch the exhibit AND a lecture titled “How Hip Hop Became Pop” at the Rock Hall this Thursday. Speaker Amy Coddington is an assistant professor of music at Amherst College in Massachusetts and the author of the 2023 book, How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race. Her book — and her talk — will cover the role that commercial radio played in taking hip hop from being a niche genre for young people in the young Black community to becoming ubiquitous in the white community in the ’80s and ’90s, colonizing genres such as punk and heavy metal that once spurned and ridiculed it.
It’s part of the Rock Hall’s lecture series in partnership with the American Musicological Society. Register to attend here.
1100 Rock and Roll Blvd, Cleveland, OH 44114