In 2023, the United States celebrated the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, the global cultural and music genre created by young artists like 18-year-old DJ Kool Herc and 14-year-old Grand Wizard Theodore who birthed the genre’s signature breakbeat and record-scratching techniques. Five decades later, the teens are now elders. Murray Forman explores what it means in his latest book, “Old in the Game: Aging in and with Hip-Hop.” It’s our September selection for Bookmarked: The “Under the Radar” Book Club.

Guest

  • Murray Forman, professor emeritus of media and screen studies at Northeastern University with more than 30 years of research on hip-hop culture, founding editor of the “Global Hip Hop Studies” journal, recipient of the inaugural Nasir Jones Hip Hop Fellowship at Harvard’s Hip Hop Archive & Research Institute, author of several books, including “The 'Hood Comes First: Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop,” and “That’s the Joint! The Hip-hop Studies Reader.”