DJs as Technical Communicators: The Rhetorical Synchronicity of Hip Hop Culture 

Over the last four decades, Hip Hop has expanded its influence across various demographics, employing principles akin to those found in technical and professional communication, which can be likened to user-localization of digital and communicative technologies. In “Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America”, Tricia Rose(1994),  primarily asserts the enriching an intriguing…

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Another World, Another Universe: Griots and Their Hypertexts in 80’s and 90’s Ball Culture

In Adam Bank’s book, Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age, he uses ideas of multimodal rhetoric and rhetors as community leaders to help us understand how DJs occupy a space outlined in West African culture for the “griot,” a role Banks defines as a “master of both words and music who is…

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