Civil Disobedience

Civil Disobedience Guests

Breakdancing on McDowell

Hip Hop 101

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Renowned rap artist and hip hop organizer KRS-One will headline a panel discussion of the Status of Graffiti and Hip Hop in Phoenix on Saturday, November 8 from 12:30-2 in Evelyn Smith Music Theatre on the ASU Tempe Campus. Admission is free.

If you can’t make it in person, you may view the event live via a webex meeting.  To do this, go to https://eval.webex.com/eval/j.php?ED=110405487&UID=1073734337

Enter your name and email address, and join the meeting.  You may chat live with other viewers, see, and hear the panel in real-time.  Students enrolled in MUS 354 may earn extra credit by posting questions for the panel on our discussion board on the course website: herbergeronline.asu.edu/hiphop.  (questions submitted to the meeting chat room will not earn extra credit points).

This event is made possible by the ASU Herberger College of the Arts, the School of Music, and Future Arts Research.

As a preview, here’s KRS-One and Marley Marl’s video “Hip Hop Lives.”

Map and Parking Information

The Civil Disobedience project has already created a positive impact on the graffiti alley. Here is a short video of the alley before and after. See it live with amazing performances by the Furious Styles Crew and other hip hop celebrities on November 7, 2008 from 5pm to 10pm. A map to the alley is below.

Graffiti Project: Civil Disobedience

Graffiti art has been celebrated and exhibited in area museums but it never has been explored in the place it exists. ASU Herberger College of the Arts students and faculty are exploring this grass-roots community arts activism in the urban landscape.

The Civil Disobedience project allows us to challenge the traditional place of art and education in American society and to create new ways art and education can be experienced.

Much of Phoenix, Ariz. is experiencing profound demographic and physical transformation, and our alleys or hidden passageways often are vibrant corridors of exchange and interaction, intersecting diverse urban populations.

We bring graffiti art past the museum walls and further into the community Nov. 7, 2008. Join us as national and local graffiti writers transform the alley located on the north side of McDowell Road between 18th and 19th Streets in downtown Phoenix.

This event is made possible by the ASU Herberger College of the Arts and our co-sponsors: Future Arts Research, Armstrong-Prior, Arizona Flower Shop, Imperial Tile Company, Medina’s Automotive, and Mercado Latino Y Carniceria.

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