Constant Elevation
Source: www.cantstopwontstop.com
Topic: Hip Hop
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Content Inside: Constant Elevation THE RISE OF BAY AREA HIP-HOP ACTIVISM by Jeff Chang by Jeff Chang Author, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation This monograph was produced with the generous support from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund and The San Francisco Foundation. Special thanks also to The James Irvine Foundation, Open Society Institute, Northern California Grantmakers, Tides Foundation, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for support for the Constant Elevation event. Acknowledgments Photo by EastSide Arts Alolaince Hip-hop activism is a tag that young organizers, thinkers, cultural workers and activists have adopted to distinguish their generation’s emerging work for social justice. It describes a broad range of social change practices, including youth organizing, cultural work, arts education, popular education, intercultural ex- changes, youth development, and celebrity projects and events. Above all, hip- hop activism is a frame to understand the hip-hop generation’s reaction to their world, and their desire to create alternative spaces for cultural development and progressive social change. This monograph comes out of a briefing on hip-hop activism held on March 6, 2003, in San Francisco, California. The intent of the meeting was to: 1) to edu- cate funders on opportunities to support the emerging work in hip-hop activism, and 2) to shine a spotlight on the Bay Area’s hip-hop activism, which features some of the most innovative and sophisticated programs in the country. The genesis for this event came when the New York staff of the Open Soci- ety Institute held a pioneering funders’ briefing entitled “Move The Crowd: The Emergence of Hip-Hop Activism” in New York City on July 19, 2002. The follow up event, which encompassed both a funders’ briefing and artist showcase, was entitled “Constant Elevation: The Rise of Bay Area Hip-Hop Activism”, and was held in San Francisco at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Th ...
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