Hip-hop culture penetrates every aspect of people's lives, from the way they dress and speak to walk and dance. Though mostly associated with music, hip-hop from its inception has always been a ...
Montsho Eshe grew up in Southwest Atlanta, a child of dance. Her first teacher was her mother, Billie Ann Gaither, who in the 1960s opened the Gaither School of Dance, one of the first Black-owned ...
BECKET — As Rennie Harris puts it, “The three laws of hip-hop are individuality, creativity, and improvisation.” All three will be seen in events spread out across Jacob’s Pillow this week to ...
There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the Grammys.
As hip-hop culture started to take hold in New Orleans in the early 1980s, it wasn’t just the new music that was influencing locals. A number of young Black New Orleanians started adapting the dance ...