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Marcyliena Morgan

Professor of African and African American Studies; Founding Executive Director, Hiphop Archive and Research Institute, Harvard University

Hiphop and the Global Influence of American Cultural Politics


Wednesday
4-6-16
5:00 PM

"Crates to Classroom: The Birth of the Hiphop Archive at Harvard University"
(Presented by the Office of Academic Enhancement)

CAS Gallery

Thursday
4-7-16
12:30 PM

Seminar: "Black Lives Matter"
Discussion with Professor David Ikard's AAS290 students
Dooley Memorial, Room 209

Thursday
4-7-16
7:00 PM

Public Lecture:
Storer Auditorium
Public Invited
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Friday
4-8-16
12:30 PM

Lunch Seminar: "Defending and Representing Hiphop Culture: 'Did You Mean What You Said?' "
Philosophy Seminar Room, Ashe Administration, Rm 735
For Faculty & Graduate Students
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Fans are generally unaware of the political, cultural, and aesthetic aspects of hiphop, especially its complex ideology regarding citizenship, knowledge, truth, language, representation, innovation, and inclusion. Global hiphop mainly conveys progressive American politics of gender, racial, and social class inclusion, transforming both American and global politics in the process.

“In The Real Hiphop, Marcyliena Morgan has written a brilliant account of the origins of hiphop and the process through which it is created and evolves, from its most elemental and raw forms into the highly processed and polished versions that have become the lingua franca of popular American culture. Morgan – the founder of the world’s only hiphop archive – raises the analysis of hiphop to an entirely new level of scholarship, explicating it as a linguistic, sociological, and political phenomenon.”
— Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University

Marcyliena Morgan, Professor of African and African American Studies, is founding executive director of the Hiphop Archive and Research Institute at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University. Dr. Morgan has conducted field research on the African Diaspora, as well as on identity and language in the USA, England, and the Caribbean. Her books include Discourse and Power in African American Culture (2002), The Real Hiphop: Battling for Knowledge, Power, and Respect in the Underground (2008), and Speech Communities (2014).

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