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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

April 24 features high-profile releases in hip-hop, R&B, and country. GloRilla and Latto debut a new single, Ebony Riley ...

Dr. Marcyliena Morgan, the founding director of Harvard’s Hiphop Archive & Research Institute, which now bears her name, died September 28 of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. The linguistic ...

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 ...

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 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.