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...Department of African and African American Studies voted unanimously yesterday to push forward with the tenure case of hip hop scholar Marcyliena Morgan, whose last bid for tenure at Harvard two years ago was blocked by then-President Lawrence H. Summers.If Morgan and her husband, sociologist Lawrence D. Bobo, accept Harvard’s entreaties, the move will allow the Af-Am Department to regain some of the star power that it lost during Summers’ five-year term. Bobo previously was the Tishman and Diker professor of sociology and Af-Am studies at Harvard, and Af-Am faculty...
...mail. “He’s slow, cool, deliberate, and meticulous, but the boy can move like nobody’s business.” Oladehin is one of the co-officers of the Harvard Breakers Organization and he also choreographs and dances with Expressions, a hip-hop dance company. He volunteers with CityStep and is known outside of Harvard as one of Boston’s best break-dancers. Oladehin specializes in a genre that pre-dates break-dancing called “popping,” which emphasizes muscle and body isolation. “Usher?...
...rallying in front of the Science Center with telltale orange posters every day of the campaign. Those same posters decorated the solarium alongside photos from the campaign’s kickoff party and Christmas lights. Dimmed overhead lights and a pounding party music mix consisting of popular hip-hop completed the celebratory atmosphere. “I’m ecstatic,” said Campaign Manager Tracy E. Nowski ’07. “We’ve been working harder on this than my thesis would like to discuss.” As the election wound...
...pieces, they appeared in two segments instead of one.“OutKast Medley,” the piece by the dancers from the Harvard TAPS, was well-intentioned but fell short. While the popular music from OutKast is conducive to certain types of dance, the loud hip-hop undermined the rhythm of the dancers. As a result, there was a constant struggle between the precise patterns of the tap shoes and the more erratic background music. Next was the Harvard Ballet Company’s “Parsons Etude,” which was also performed...
...featuring Dr. Dre and D’Angelo. It begins with a claim by Snoop that the album is so gangsta, that the tone needs to be settled down a bit. This is inaccurate. But the track bangs anyway, with Dr. Dre actually singing a verse about hip-hop being a mostly positive force for black Americans...