Research Catalog

Title

Documenting history in your own backyard : a symposium for archiving & preserving hip-hop culture / hosted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Publication

New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Adler, B.
• Diaz, Martha
• Fullwood, Steven G.
• Gray, Paradise
• Muhammad, Khalil Gibran, 1972-
• Ortiz, Ben
• Richardson, Deborra A.
• Reagan, Katherine
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Description

7 videodiscs (ca. 420 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

A symposium to discuss the preservation and documentation of the history of hip-hop culture at various archival institutions; what collectors and artists need to know about the archival process and the importance of moving artifacts into an institutional collection; tool kits available for collectors and archvists; building a community of archives and planning for the future.

Alternative Title

• Symposium for archiving & preserving hip-hop culture
• Symposium for archiving and preserving hip-hop culture

Subjects

• Hip-hop > Influence
• Hip-hop > Social aspects > United States
• Nonfictions films
• Archives
• Hip-hop > Archival resources
• Hip-hop > History
• Panel discussions

Genre/Form

• Nonfictions films.
• Panel discussions.

Note

• Moderator, Martha Diaz (Hip Hop scholar, Schomburg Center). Participants include: Bill Adler (author); Paradise Gray (author); Ben Ortiz (Cornell University); Katherine Reagan (Cornell University); Deborra A. Richardson (Smithsonian Institution)

Contents

Disc 1 (56 min.) Welcome (Dr. Kahil Gibran Muhammad and Stephen G. Fullwood, Schomburg Center). Symposium Review and Introduction of Participants (Martha Diaz). Preserving History in Institutional Archives: What Collectors/Creators Need to Know (Deborra Richardson) -- Disc 2 (53 min.) An Example of an Institutional Collecting Model (Katherine Reagan and Ben Ortiz) -- Disc 3. (63 min.) Private Collectors : Documenting and Preserving Hip Hop History (Bill Adler and Paradise Gray) -- Disc 4 (63 min.) Paradise Gray, (continued). How to Document Your Community: a Tool Kit (Deborra A. Richardson) -- Disc 5. How to Document Your community: a Tool Kit (continued). Questions and Answers/General Discussion -- Disc 6 (62 min.) Questions and Answers/General Discussion (continued) -- Disc 7 (31 min.) Questions and Answers/General Discussion (continued). Next Steps (Dr. Kahil Gibran Muhammad)

Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-362

OCLC

1128191166

Title

Documenting history in your own backyard : a symposium for archiving & preserving hip-hop culture / hosted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Production

New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 2012.

Country of Producing Entity

United States.

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

Type of Carrier

videodisc

Digital File Characteristics

video file DVD video

Event

Symposium held October 19, 2012, at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

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Added Author

Adler, B., speaker.

Diaz, Martha, moderator.

Fullwood, Steven G., speaker.

Gray, Paradise, speaker.

Muhammad, Khalil Gibran, 1972- speaker.

Ortiz, Ben, speaker.

Richardson, Deborra A., speaker.

Reagan, Katherine, speaker.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Research Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-362