HOW HIP-HOP MADE ATLANTA
A Public Lecture Series by Regina N. Bradley
Free and open to the public
Hip-hop found a home in a lot of American cities. It found its voice in Atlanta.
But the full story — how the music grew out of specific neighborhoods, specific struggles, and specific visions of what the South could be — rarely gets told with the depth it deserves.
How Hip-Hop Made Atlanta is a three-part public lecture series by Dr. Regina N. Bradley. Each session examines Atlanta's hip-hop culture as a lens for understanding American identity, civic life, and regional history — from the geography that shaped the movement's earliest days, to the Dungeon Family's reinvention of the Southern Black experience, to trap music's unflinching portrait of labor and survival.
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ABOUT DR. REGINA N. BRADLEY
Dr. Regina N. Bradley is an award-winning writer and researcher of the Black American South, and one of the country's leading scholarly voices on Southern hip-hop culture. She 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. Her book Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South — named one of the "Books All Georgians Should Read" in 2022 — is the definitive account of how OutKast and Atlanta hip-hop shaped the culture of the Black American South. Her work has been featured on Netflix, NPR, and the Washington Post.
The series is presented by MODA and Georgia Humanities as part of Georgia's reflection on America's 250th anniversary, and an invitation to consider how cultural production from the South has shaped, challenged, and enriched national narratives.
All three sessions are free, open to the public, and include a presentation by Dr. Bradley followed by facilitated discussion and audience Q&A.
Have any questions? Contact Felicia E. Gail, Public Programming & Membership Manager at felicia@museumofdesign.org.