22. The Influence of Hip-Hop

In a Time Magazine article back in 2000, it stated:
"...hip-hop has always been Black America's CNN... CNN shows all kinds of news, not just "positive" stuff, and that is the same for hip-hop... in spite of being a billion-dollar business, is still the blues of the working poor... the real challenge is to understand WHY hip-hop has deteriorated from the golden era into what we have now, and how corporate interests have played a role in that and how even the socially conscious among us are guilty of perpetuating ignorance rather than education and self-love, especially among those who need it most: Black and Latino young people."

This Monday, The GreenHouse FX Radio Show is very proud to welcome Jeffrey O. Green Ogbar, Ph.D. We will take a look at the evolution and influence of Hip-Hop from past to present.

Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut and the founding Director of the Center for the Study of Popular Music. He is the author of "Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity" (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), winner of an “Outstanding Academic Title” from Choice (2005) and editor of "Civil Rights: Problems in American Civilization" (Houghton Mifflin 2003). His book, "Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap" (University Press of Kansas), was published in fall 2007. It is the winner of the W.E.B. Du Bois Book Prize from the Northeast Black Studies Association (2008). His most recent book, "The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts and Letters," an edited volume, was published in 2010 by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Dr. Ogbar’s articles appear in the Journal of Religious Thought, Journal of Black Studies, Souls, Centro and Radical Society among other academic journals.