Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Renowned scholar and cultural historian Marcyliena Morgan, founder of Harvard University's Hip Hop Archive and Research Institute, ...

Marcyliena H. Morgan was teaching an urban speech communities course at the University of California Los Angeles, nearly 35 years ago when her students began focusing on musicians in their assignments ...

The linguistic anthropologist was captivated by hip hop rhymes in the 1980s and went on to build a model archive for one of the world’s most elite academic institutions. The hip hop archivist, ...

When Marcyliena H. Morgan first began her scholarship on hip-hop in the 1990s, nobody believed the genre would have real staying power, according to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., director of the ...

For three days, Tsai Auditorium had the feel of a giant dinner party. Dozens of colleagues, collaborators, artists, family, and friends gathered there last month for a symposium celebrating linguistic ...

Morgan was an champion of hip-hop as an academic subject worthy of study. Marcyliena Morgan, the trailblazing scholar and founder of Hip Hop Archive and Research Institute at Harvard, has died at 75.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo Credit: PBS/YouTube) The linguistic anthropologist was captivated by hip hop rhymes in the 1980s and went on to build a ...

When Marcyliena Morgan was teaching courses on urban speech communities at UCLA in the 1990s, her students started writing essays about rappers like Ice Cube and asking to do projects on hip-hop.

The hip hop archivist, Marcyliena H. Morgan, has died at 75. She is credited with creating Harvard University’s Hip Hop Archive & Research Institute, convincing elite academia to see the genre as a ...

Marcyliena Morgan, founder and director of Harvard University’s hip-hop archive, university professor, anthropologist and former faculty member at UCLA, Stanford University and the University of ...