“Hip-Pop Don’t Stop: Covering Music & Culture for Alternative Media in the Digital Era.”

Time: Thurs., Oct., 22nd, 11-12:15
Location: G-234 (Marietta Campus)

Join our GHSS 2901: Psychology of Hip Hop class as Chris Daniel discusses how his personal journey as a digital journalist runs a parallel line to the history and popularity of hip-hop culture. The lecture will include a series of immersive anecdotes and personal narratives, cultural studies theories, and pop culture references, revealing and reflecting how the transition from print to digital is connected to the artistic and sociopolitical elements associated with hip-hop culture.

Bio:
Christopher A. Daniel is an award-winning journalist, cultural critic, historian, and public intellectual. Born in Spartanburg, SC, his work has been featured digitally on FRANK151/The ATLanta Backwoods, Urban Lux Magazine, TheBurtonWire.com, The Hip Hop Enquirer, TheRoot.com, HuffPost Live, soulhead.com, Indiewire/Shadow & Act, & Music Enthusiast Magazine. He has served as a U.S. correspondent for the British-based magazines Knowledge (KMag) and Blues & Soul.
Daniel’s anthropological, vivid storytelling is often framed within the areas of popular music and culture, civil rights, the arts and humanities, education, philanthropy, humanitarianism, and lifestyle topics. Some of his interviews include Quincy Jones, Wanda Sykes, Steve Harvey, Steven Tyler, Usher, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Stanley Clarke, Al Jarreau, Aaron Neville, Charlie Wilson, Najee, John Ridley, Terrence Howard, Lee Daniels, Ciara, Marlon Wayans, Rza, LeVar Burton, Robert Glasper, Questlove, Ludacris, Misty Copeland, Bun B., Slick Rick, DJ Premier, Talib Kweli, 9th Wonder, David Banner, Snoop Dogg, T.I., 2 Chainz, Rae Sremmurd, and MikeWiLL Made It among others.
He is praised by his peers for being a detail-oriented, trustworthy, and enthusiastic scribe. Daniel is a distinguished alumnus of Johnson C. Smith University (Bachelor of Arts, ’05) in Charlotte, NC and the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication (Master of Arts ’07) in Athens, GA. His work and passion for diversity and multiculturalism has been recognized by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), and NewsOne.com.
Daniel is currently based in Atlanta. He is traveling to Salvador, Bahia as part of a Community Journalism Exchange Program to concentrate on covering Afro-Brazilian music and arts education programming.