{"id":247,"date":"2023-02-09T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2023\/2023\/02\/09\/black-history-files-fotografiska-showcases-50years-of-hip-hop\/"},"modified":"2023-02-09T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T16:00:00","slug":"black-history-files-fotografiska-showcases-50years-of-hip-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2023\/2023\/02\/09\/black-history-files-fotografiska-showcases-50years-of-hip-hop\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Files: Fotografiska Showcases 50 years of Hip Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

History is said to repeat itself. In fact, we study textbooks and learn from our past<\/a> as a means of avoiding it. In the case of hip hop, a genre that began as a social movement<\/a> by-and-for the local community of African, Latino, and Caribbean Americans, we’ve had the luxury of having monumental moments captured for us by some of histories greatest orators. 50 years after its inception, the best rap songs are time capsules into their respective eras. Keeping in theme, Swedish photography museum Fotografiska\u00a0have decided to chronicle hip hop’s emergence for its 50th anniversary. From its creation in the Bronx in 1973 and culminating in the worldwide phenomenon it has become 50 years later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hip Hop: Conscious, Unconscious chronicles the genre beginning with its origin in the Bronx<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What is Hip Hop: Conscious, Unconscious?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Created in partnership with Mass Appeal<\/a>, Hip Hop: Conscious, Unconscious delves deep into the genres origins, identifying the individual creatives involved in the movement. It is a fitting name considering the intended and inadvertent effect of what is now the world’s most popular genre. Located in Manhattan’s Gramercy Park neighborhood, the show’s layout is by chronology and geography. Additionally, the exhibition brings audiences through five decades of history, culminating in recent imagery of today’s biggest names. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beginning with formative figures such as DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash, the display captures the era’s larger cultural climate, painting a picture of wthe influential factors that helped inspire the genre’s proprietors. Correspondingly, the show’s imagery features breakdancers, graffiti artist, b-boys and even gang culture which Sacha Jenkins — the exhibition’s co-curator –explains \u201cwas the precursor to hip-hop in terms of creating an identity for yourself,\u201d especially regarding the culture’s core philosophies around self-identification. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hip Hop: Conscious, Unconscious runs from January 26 until May 21, with focus areas that include the early years, the regional and stylistic diversification; and the turning point when hip hop became a billion-dollar industry. In like manner, the set of women who trailblazed hip hop\u2019s male-dominated environment are also extensively documented. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Women’s contributions to hip hop are celebrated thoughout the exhibition. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We made a thoughtful effort to have the presence of women accurately represented, not overtly singling them out in any way, <\/p>\n– Sally Berman, co-curator<\/em> of Hip Hop: Conscious, Unconscious<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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