Georgia State University Library
Celebrating 50 years of hip-hop! The Rap Map visualizes metro Atlanta’s influence on hip-hop and hip-hop’s influence on the region over the last three decades. The Rap Map highlights the disconnect between the rapid pace of development in the city and its negligible impact on how hip hop music engages with the city’s geography. It is as if Atlanta’s economic renaissance skipped whole portions of the city and that is where hip hop in Atlanta was born. Project goals are to show the significance of music as a source for an aural history of cities and towns as well as to explore the symbiotic relationship between art and space.
The Rap Map is available through ATLMaps, https://atlmaps.org
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- “Student Creates Atlanta Rap Maps Featuring Childish Gambino, Other Stars,” https://news.gsu.edu/2019/05/08/student-creates-atlanta-rap-maps-featuring-childish-gambino-other-stars/
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- Featured – Rap Map
- Creator
- Faculty advisor Brennan Collins, Ph.D., Associate Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Georgia State University for Digital Pedagogy and Atlanta Studies
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- Arts & Culture