Hip-Hop Education Center collection

id
11565
origination
Hip-Hop Education Center
date statement
1979-2014 [bulk 1989-2014]
key date
1979
identifier (local_mss)
23957
org unit
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division
call number
Sc MIRS Hip 2014
b-number
b22876867
total components
489
total series
2
max depth
2
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2022-11-03 19:17:22 UTC
updated
2023-11-13 18:12:30 UTC
status note
(missing)
Display Aeon link
true

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unitid
{"value"=>"23957", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b22876867", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"Sc MIRS Hip 2014", "type"=>"local_call"}
unitdate
{"value"=>"1979-2014", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1979/2014"}
{"value"=>"1989-2014", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1989/2014"}
unittitle
{"value"=>"Hip-Hop Education Center collection"}
physdesc
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"446 video_recordings", "unit"=>"video_recordings"}]}
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"41 audio_recordings", "unit"=>"audio_recordings"}]}
repository
{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division</span>"}
langmaterial
{"value"=>"English"}
origination
{"value"=>"Hip-Hop Education Center", "type"=>"corpname"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>Producer, educator, and archivist Martha Diaz formed the Hip-Hop Education Center (HHEC) to formalize and promote hip-hop based education. Its primary holdings are from the Hip-Hop Odyssey (H2O) International Film Festival, which Diaz founded in 2002 to showcase hip-hop films, music videos, public service announcements, and related media from around the world for artists, educators, and the broader community around its home at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. In 2007, H2O shifted from producing festivals to collaborating with Third World Newsreel on H2ONewsreel, a full-service media development and distribution organization for hip-hop media makers. The Hip-Hop Education Center collection brings all of these related works under one umbrella.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>The Hip-Hop Education Center collection consists of 446 moving image works and forty-one sound recordings created from 1979 to 2014. These works have been included in Hip-Hop Odyssey International Film Festivals, or created or presented with the assistance of H2ONewsreel.</p> <p>The collection includes early film and video works by Charlie Ahearn, Fred \"Fab 5 Freddy\" Brathwaite, Shaka King, and Boots Riley. It also includes works featuring celebrated rappers such as Bahamadia, Big Pun, Dead Prez, Grandmaster Caz, KRS-One, Missy Elliott, Outkast, and Rah Digga; DJs and producers like Afrika Bambaataa and 9th Wonder; graffiti artists including New York's Tats CRU and Paris's MACrew; and breakdancers Richie \"Crazy Legs\" Colon and Ana \"Rokafella\" Garcia. Beyond diverse locales throughout the United States, the collection includes works from across six continents, including countries such as Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Curacao, Japan, Palestine, and South Africa.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Hip-Hop Education Center collection is arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scl/23957#c1689013'>SERIES I: FILMS</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series I: Films: Four hundred and forty-six moving image works of varying lengths and original formats. This series is arranged alphabetically by title and includes short and feature-length films, music videos, and performance footage, among other genres. When available, the director, synopsis, and runtime are included in each item's scope and content note. Synopses are retained from the original collection documentation, or amended from other sources such as H2ONewsreel, IMDB, and WorldCat. Runtimes, rounded up to the nearest minute, are also amended from the original collection documentation.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scl/23957#c1689460'>SERIES II: SOUND RECORDINGS</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series II: Sound recordings: Forty-one recorded sound works, including individual songs, albums, and motion picture soundtracks. This series is organized alphabetically by title. When available, the artist is included in each item's scope and content note.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
acqinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Martha Diaz, 2014.</p>"}
processinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Collection inventoried by <span class=\"name\">Stacey Doyle Ference</span> and <span class=\"name\">Nathan Evans</span>. Collection processed by <span class=\"name\">Martha Diaz</span>, archivist; <span class=\"name\">Anika Paris</span>, archivist; and <span class=\"name\">Shola Lynch</span>, curator. Finding aid published in <span class=\"date\">2022</span>.</p>"}
relatedmaterial
{"value"=>"<p>Fab 5 Freddy archive: Fab 5 Freddy audio and moving image collection, Sc MIRS Freddy 2019 Fab 5 Freddy papers, Sc MG 961 Fab 5 Freddy photographs, SCP 186081</p>"}
sponsor
{"value"=>"An anonymous donor funded preliminary processing for this collection, and a grant from the Mellon Foundation supported the digitization."}
revisiondesc
{"value"=>"Series designation, item titles, and numerical format in Scope and Content note updated by Anika Paris.", "date"=>"2023-10-23"}
date_start
1979
keydate
1979
date_end
2014
date_inclusive_start
1979
date_inclusive_end
2014
date_bulk_start
1989
date_bulk_end
2014
prefercite
{"value"=>"Hip-Hop Education Center collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}
abstract
{"value"=>"Producer, educator, and archivist Martha Diaz formed the Hip-Hop Education Center (HHEC) to formalize and promote hip-hop based education. Its primary holdings are from the Hip-Hop Odyssey (H2O) International Film Festival, which Diaz founded in 2002 to showcase hip-hop films, music videos, public service announcements, and related media from around the world for artists, educators, and the broader community around its home at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. In 2007, H2O shifted from producing festivals to collaborating with Third World Newsreel on H2ONewsreel, a full-service media development and distribution organization for hip-hop media makers. The Hip-Hop Education Center collection brings all of these related works under one umbrella. The Hip-Hop Education Center collection consists of 446 moving image works and forty-one sound recordings created from 1979 to 2014. These works have been included in Hip-Hop Odyssey International Film Festivals, or created or presented with the assistance of H2ONewsreel.", "generated"=>true}

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