Grown-Up Camp: The South Got Somethin' to Say with Dr. Regina Bradley
Join us on July 15 for a day that asks where original work really comes from. Hip-hop didn't just happen in Atlanta. Atlanta made it happen -- and understanding how changes the way you think about making anything.
Spend a morning with Dr. Regina Bradley -- scholar, author, and one of the sharpest minds on Southern rap culture -- learning exactly how this city built a sound that changed the world. OutKast. Dungeon Family. Trap. The through-line of innovation that runs from Bankhead to the Billboard charts.
Then spend the afternoon doing something about it: designing hip-hop historical markers for the Atlanta places that shaped the sound and never got a plaque. The Dungeon. Bankhead Courts. Stankonia Studios. Places that made history without anyone making it official. Until now.
What to Expect:
Price: $300 | All proceeds fund summer Design Camp scholarships for youth ages 6-18. Lunch is included.
Your Fearless Leader:
Dr. Regina N. Bradley is Associate Professor of English and African Diaspora Studies at Kennesaw State University and Co-Director of the Hip Hop Studies Consortium at Georgia State University. A leading scholar of Southern hip-hop, Black Southern studies, and sound studies, she is the author of Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip Hop South (UNC Press, 2021) -- recipient of the 2022 Georgia Author of the Year Award and named a "Book All Georgians Should Read." She is also editor of An OutKast Reader and co-editor of That's the Joint!: The Hip Hop Studies Reader. Dr. Bradley was the co-curator of MODA's exhibition The Hoodie. Identity. Power. Protest. She is, in short, exactly the person you want in the room when Atlanta's hip hop story gets told.
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