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WBUR: 'From Havana To Harvard: Producer Pablo D. Herrera Veitia On Connecting Cuba To The U.S. Through Hip-Hop'

June 6, 2019
Harvard’s Hiphop Archive & Research Institute is part production studio, part classroom and part research lab. It’s something of a museum for hip-hop history. Vintage Nike sneakers, boomboxes and Run-DMC records from hip-hop's heyday in the '80s decorate the walls. For the past year, producer Pablo D. Herrera Veitia has been spending his days and nights here, making a place for Afro-Cuban hip-hop in the archive.
2017 Oct 25

Fall Colloquium with Tef Poe

(All day)

Location: 

Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Tef Poe, Hiphop Activist

Universe of Insanity: Culture Shock in the Black American Experience

Free and open to the public. A Q+A session will follow each talk. Please feel free to bring a lunch.

Location: Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

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2015 Mar 10

A Harvard University Encounter with Princess Nokia's Afro-futurism and Urban Feminism

(All day)

Location: 

Hiphop Archive & Research Institute at the Hutchins Center, 104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge, MA

Nuyorican urban feminist Hiphop artist, Princess Nokia, comes to Harvard with her female punk energy, spiritual mysticism, and enigmatic musicality. This independent musician hosts her own weekly radio show, "The Smart Girl Club,â" and will discuss her artistic activism and her animŽ-inspired hacker girl character, Princess Nokia. We will screen the director's cut of her recently released music video, "Young Girlsâ" from her debut album Metallic Butterfly (2014), and will with a musical performance by Princess Nokia herself. Princess Nokia's artistry fuses sci-...

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2017 Sep 11

Enter the Archive (Open House)

(All day)

Location: 

Hiphop Archive & Research Institute, 104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge, MA

Co-sponsored with the Department of African and African American Studies and the Center for African Studies