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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

Related Content

• Mock, Brentin, “Mapping Childish Gambino’s Atlanta.” Bloomberg, June 8, 2018,
  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-08/presenting-a-childish-ludacris-outkast-map-of-atlanta
• Rasool, Adnan. “Mapping Atlanta’s Rap Footprint.” Atlanta Studies, February 13, 2018, https://doi.org/10.18737/atls20180213
• “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/

Documents the history of radio broadcasting in the state of Georgia over a 50 year period from its inception in 1922 through the 1970s, including Atlanta stations WAOK, WAGA, WQXI, WSB, WKLS, and others. Content and materials included in this exhibit are from the Radio Broadcasting Collections housed in the GSU Library Special Collections and Archives and the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame collections. Originally created October 2013, coinciding with the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame’s 7th Annual Induction and Awards Ceremony.