Muse in Music: Writing for the Hip-Hop Generation

The musical genre known as hip-hop has a profound influence worldwide and has become a powerful tool for engaging a multicultural generation. Panelists will discuss current issues and trends within the hip-hop community and hip-hop’s influence on writing, style, and culture.

Moderator: Rob Rosenthal, Professor of Sociology and 2000 recipient of the Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching, whose current courses include “The Sociology of Music in Social Movements”; 

Presenters: Smokey Fontaine ’93, former Music Editor of The Source Magazine, now a freelance journalist and writer, and author of What’s Your HiFi Q? and E.A.R.L: The Autobiography of DMX; Sean Sharp '92, music producer, freelance hip-hop writer, and DJ for New York City’s hottest and longest running hip-hop party, Webster Hall’s Basement Room,

Sponsored by the Wesleyan Black Alumni Council in celebration of its 20th anniversary