Faculty Forum
The Department of African and African American Studies hosted a Town Hall Meeting on February 12th, entitled "Shut Up and Teach"
Wahneema Lubiano's introductory comments and the paper she delivered may be accessed by clicking the links below:
PANEL DISCUSSION:
Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop
The Mary Lou Williams Center at Duke University - April 5, 2007
201 West Union Building
5:00 pm
Featuring:
JEFF CHANG has written extensively on race, culture, politics, the arts, and music. His first book, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (2005), garnered many honors, including the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award. He is the editor of the recently published Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop (Basic Civitas, 2007).
DANNY HOCH is an actor, playwright and director whose plays have garnered many awards. Currently a Senior Fellow at the New School?s Vera List Center For Art & Politics, Hoch?s writing and acting credits for television and film include Bamboozled, Washington Heights, Prison Song, Subway Stories, Thin Red Line, Whiteboys, Blackhawk Down, American Splendor, War Of The Worlds, HBO Def Poetry and the upcoming Lucky You and We Own The Night. Mr. Hoch founded the Hip-Hop Theater Festival in 2000 which has presented over 75 hip-hop generation plays from around the world and appears annually in New York, Chicago, DC and San Franci sco/Oakland.
JOAN MORGAN is an award-winning journalist and author and a provocative cultural critic. A pioneering hip-hop journalist and entertainment writer, she began her professional writing career freelancing for The Village Voice before having her work published by Vibe, Interview, MS, More, Spin, Giant and numerous other publications. Formerly the Executive Editor of Essence and one of the original staff writers at VIBE, Joan Morgan is the author of When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: My Life as a Hip-Hop Feminist (1999). Her work appears in numerous college texts, as well as books on feminism, music and African-American culture. She is currently a visiting instructor at Duke University where she teaches "The History of Hip-Hop Journalism".
MARK ANTHONY NEAL is the author of four books, What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1998), Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (2002), Songs in the Keys of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation (2003) and New Black Man: Rethinking Black Masculinity (2005). Neal is also the co-editor (with Murray Forman) of That?s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (2004). Neal's essays have been anthologized in more than half-a-dozen books, including the 2004 edition of the acclaimed series Da Capo Best Music Writing, edited by Mickey Hart. Neal is Ass ociate Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department African and African American Studies and Director of the Institute for Critical U.S. Studies (ICUSS) at Duke University.
About Total Chaos
Hip-hop is one of the most important global arts movements of the past two decades, moving beyond rap music to transform theater, dance, performance, poetry, literature, fashion, design, photography, painting, and film. Through essays, interviews, roundtable discussions, and more, Total Chaos provides a deep, incisive look at the hip-hop arts movement in the voices of its pioneers, innovators, and mavericks.