Category: Culture
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B-Boys and Buckeyes: Dr. Jason Rawls’ Journey From Hip-Hop to TEDxOSU
By Brie Blevins It is July 1988 and a group of young boys were sitting around a boombox on the south side of Columbus listening to an emerging genre: hip-hop. A song began with a drumbeat over an electronic bass line being updated with turntable scratching and talk box ad-libs. The song, “You Gots To…
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Y2k Fansites and the Importance of Archiving Obsession
By Emily Burnheimer I recall my past only through my timeline of musical obsessions. It’s hard to remember anything else– or at least, it’s hard to separate the music when it frames every memory. It’s easy to find the music in everything, and in the isolation of adolescence I did just that, spending every free…