Woop! Woop! What’s That Sound Noise? (Interactive Lecture)

Presenting, a workshop on Hip-Hop culture with Dr. Brent Smith

Back in 1993, Hip Hop culture had reached twenty years of life and was boldly making its way through emerging adulthood. Its emcees and other artists challenged boundaries on self-expression, self-determination, and even community. The soundtrack of our societies and our lives would come to make way for insights wrapped into Sound of The Police (KRS One), U.N.I.T.Y. (Queen Latifah), C.R.E.A.M. (Wu Tang Clan), Now I Feel Ya (Scarface), How Many Emcees (Black Moon), Streiht Up Menace (MNC Eiht), and more. Hip Hop of 1993, arguably one of its greatest years, prompted or provoked us like a siren: Woop! Woop! What’s That Sound Noise? 

Join us for a community talk led by Dr. Brent Smith as we explore this topic in relation to our current exhibit, Louis Cameron: Now is the Time.

Emerson Contemporary proudly presents Louis Cameron: Now is the Time, featuring Billboards, posters and text-based works that explore the civil rights movement, gun violence and Hip Hop culture. The exhibition features several large-scale, wall-mounted vinyl text pieces from the ongoing Hip Hop Onomatopoeia series, a body of work that explores the conversation on gun violence within Hip Hop music.