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 View the Up the Ridge Documentary Trailer online now! Be sure to have Quicktime installed to view the media. |
Are you producing rural hip-hop? No matter what you call your music (hick-hop, hill-hop, or mountain-hop) we want to play it on our weekly radio program on WMMT-FM. Send a CD to Holler to the Hood, 91 Madison Ave., Whitesburg,KY 41858 or call us at 606.633.0108. Give us permission and we will also post a sound clip on our website. The Rural-Urban Future Aesthetics project seeks to strengthen the use of arts and media as a means to explore low-income communities and cultural tensions. Through exchanges, model arts projects, and experimenting with the possibilities of technology we want to push the role that arts and media can play in building our communities. Listen to the Exchange. Part of our effort to fuse hip-hop and traditional mountain music. Hill-hop mixer - Mix your own music. Clogging and Breaking - Low-Income urban and rural communities share many of the same economic and social struggles. How do their dancing traditions match up? (flash movie) Digital Storytelling Workshop - Make your own art and explore the economic history and future of your community. We designed this hands-on media workshop to work in multi-racial communities dealing with the questions rising out of job loss and the desire to do community development from within. (flash movie)
Hill-Hop- Check out the above audio file from one of our rural youth "Hill-Hop" workshop. We are still experimenting with this aesthetic. We believe that rural youth and hip-hop have a future.
Hill-Hop #2 Check out this new track from the Southeast Shot Callers from Millstone, KY. Samples of media stories about Holler's Rural-Urban Aesthetics work: NPR's Howard
Berkes reported on Holler to the Hood's exploration of Hill-Hop
and visited one of our youth workshops. Listen
to it here. "From
Hillbilly to Hip-Hop" by Davey D's Hip-Hop Corner: The
New Source for the Hip-Hop Perspective |
