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Article: HIP HOP AWARENESS WEEK CELEBRATES CAMPUS HIP-HOP CULTURE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 8, 2006
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The Ohio University issued the following news release:
Don't be surprised to find pounding drum circles, elaborate graffiti murals or spontaneous break dancing while walking through campus this week. Starting today, Ohio University's Hip Hop Congress celebrates the four central elements of hip-hop culture - deejaying, emceeing, B-boying/B-girling (break dancing or breaking) and graphing (graffiti art) - with the campus' third annual Hip Hop Awareness Week.
"Our main purpose for Hip Hop Awareness Week this year is to bring to light that there is hip-hop culture in Athens," says Anita Tobin, president of Hip Hop Congress. "Just because we're in rural Appalachia doesn't mean that culture ...