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

Collection — Container: Items 1-48

Identifier: 749

Scope and Contents The NOLA Hip Hop Archive was founded by Holly Hobbs, a Ph.D. candidate at Tulane University, in 2012. The goal of Hobbs’ project is to add to the growing body of documentation of hip hop and bounce oral histories in New Orleans, Louisiana, in order to highlight the music's role as an important community art form. With the assistance of videographer Dick Darby and production assistant Colin Meneghini, Hobbs conducted a series of videotaped interviews with hip hop and bounce artists and...

Dates: Created: 2012-2014; Other: Date acquired: 03/11/2013

Found in: Amistad Research Center / NOLA Hip Hop Archive Project Collection

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Subject: Bounce (Music) -- Louisiana -- New Orleans X