Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Round Table Discussion: "The State of the Hip Hop Union"; Jeff Chang, author, Total Chaos: Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop (2007) and Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (2005); Ebony Utley, assistant professor of communication studies, C.S.U. Long Beach; author, forthcoming, The Gansta God: Deciphering the Divine's Role in Rap and co-editor, Critical Mixtape: Deciphering Hip-Hop Songs; Cheo Hodari Coker, author, Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Notorious B.I.G. (2004) and co-author, Dreamgirls (2007); Crooked I, hip hop artist; CEO, Dynasty Entertainment; senior vice president, Treacherous Records; Adam Bradley, moderator; assistant professor of literature, CMC; author, Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip-Hop (2009)