{"id":657,"date":"2013-04-14T08:53:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T13:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/?p=657"},"modified":"2013-12-27T11:59:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T16:59:23","slug":"hip-hop-and-the-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2013\/04\/14\/hip-hop-and-the-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip hop and the academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2013\/04\/U-of-Richmond.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-656\" title=\"University of Richmond\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2013\/04\/U-of-Richmond-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In my <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/erik-nielson\/post_4633_b_3064824.html\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">latest piece<\/span><\/a><\/span> for the\u00a0<em>Huffington Post<\/em>, I look at the role of colleges and universities in the formation and evolution of hip hop, especially rap music. \u00a0As it turns out, many influential performers have gone to college themselves, and the college\/university scene has always been important in disseminating rap music, either through radio stations or by providing an alternative touring circuit.<\/p>\n<p>As the mainstream industry increasingly discourages innovation in favor of money-making hits, colleges and universities could play an even more important role in rap&#8217;s future as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my latest piece for the\u00a0Huffington Post, I look at the role of colleges and universities in the formation and evolution of hip hop, especially rap music. \u00a0As it turns out, many influential performers have gone to college themselves, and the college\/university scene has always been important in disseminating rap music, either through radio stations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2013\/04\/14\/hip-hop-and-the-academy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hip hop and the academy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}