HIP-HOP & JAZZ

An exploration and celebration of a controversial tradition that, contrary to popular opinion, is alive and active after more than 150 years. Learn More

America's homegrown geniuses of jazz are featured in loving portraits in this distinctive set of trading cards. Learn More

Boogie wonderland! Grooving down memory lane: record covers that defined an era. Learn More

Funk: It's the only musical genre ever to have transformed the nation into a throbbing army of bell-bottomed, hoop-earringed, rainbow-Afro'd warriors on the dance floor. Its rhythms and lyrics turned bleak urban realties inside out with distinctive, danceable, downright irresistable music. Learn More

Rap, Breakdance, Graffiti & DJ:ing - now for the very youngest! Learn More

Martha Cooper has the reputation of beeing the first and foremost photographer of emering Hip Hop culture in New York City. Learn More

The #1 Source for the "Underground", "indie" and UnSigned HipHop Stars! Learn More

In a moment of increasing corporate control in the music industry, where three major labels call the shots on which artists are heard and seen, Jared Ball analyzes the colonization and control of popular music and posits the homemade hip-hop mixtape as an emancipatory tool for community resistance. I Mix What I Like! is a revolutionary investigation of the cultural dimension of anti-racist organizing in the Black community. Learn More

You will hear a Nile Rodgers song today. It will make you happy. Learn More