In celebration of Black History Month this workshop explores Cornell University’s Hip Hop Collection. Renowned for its coverage of hip hop in the South Bronx from the past 40 years and Afrika Bambaataa’s annotations on vinyl sleeves, the Cornell Hip Hop Collection amasses thousands of photographs and flyers. In this workshop we’ll start by looking at the materials and do some personal/collaborative collecting before ultimately thinking about how digital archives are produced and presented. What does this archive tell us? What messages are being sent? What changes can or should libraries and archives make and what’s keeping them back? How do collections like these compare to other African American History repositories like Umbra Search?
Beyond searching and collecting, we’ll be drawing, schematizing, rewording archival collections, and writing scores for searching and working with other people’s belongings.
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February 10th, 7:00-8:15 pm.
Sawyer 328
Please bring a computer.