Hip Hop Archives or an Archive of Hip Hop? A Remix Impulse

Abstract

Abstract The archivization of hip hop history by American Universities has been a reality for at least one decade, at schools like Harvard, Cornell and Tulane. Institutions of higher learning are, in the words of Foucault producing discursive possibilities for the public life of hip hop histories, creating what is sayable (Foucault 1969:61). Simultaneously, the archivization of hip hop by American Universities is also a “privileging” project, as Mbembe suggests, conferring “status” on information that can shape the future of knowledge production (2002:20). What is at stake here, is not just the future of what can be said, but also the role of a counter, rogue or institutional archive in honouring the ethos of hip hop culture in ways that do not empty the culture of its innovative and interventional aesthetic approach topower.

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