Found 3 collections related to Afrika Bambaataa, 1957-

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. less

Fab 5 Freddy is an African American director, TV host, graffiti artist, and a key personality in the history of hip-hop culture. The Fab 5 Freddy photographs highlight both his professional and personal lives, including images taken behind-the-scenes at musical video shoots and on the set of Yo! MTV Raps, album artwork and photoshoots, as well as candid images of figures within the hip hop world. less

Afrika Bambaataa is a hip-hop artist from the South Bronx, New York, best known for his 1982 record "Planet Rock" with the Soulsonic Force. He also hosted popular hip-hop parties. Johan Kugelberg is a collector and the founder of Boo-Hooray, an archive of 20th and 21st century subcultures. The Hip-hop flyers collection highlights the early hip-hop party scene through Kugelberg's collection of hip-hop party flyers in the New York metropolitan area from 1977 through 1985. less