Hobbs, Holly

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Holly Hobbs is a PhD Candidate in ethnomusicology at Tulane University and founder of the NOLA Hiphop Archive, a digital archive of hiphop music/oral history supported by the Amistad Research Center. Hobbs is also a writer for the popular urban music blog The Smoking Section and KnowLA: The Online Encyclopedia of Louisiana Music and Culture. She currently serves as a consultant for the Tanzanian Heritage Project in Dar es Salaam and does musical consulting for documentary film. Her interests include musical activism, documentary filmmaking, and digital media literacy.

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Author: Holly Hobbs

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Holly Hobbs personal communication

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NOLA Hip-hop Archive Project collection addendum

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Identifier: 749-1

Content Description The NOLA Hip-hop Archive was founded by Holly Hobbs, a Ph.D. student at Tulane University, as part of her dissertation research in 2012. The goal of Hobbs’ project is to document hip-hop in New Orleans, Louisiana, both as a musical and community art form. Hobbs’ research includes a series of video interviews with hip-hop artists in New Orleans, which form the basis for this collection. Additional interviews will be added as they are completed, as will ephemeral material such as flyers,...

Dates: Other: 2015

Found in: Amistad Research Center / NOLA Hip-hop Archive Project collection addendum

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Subject: African American musicians X