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Jermaine Dupri: Welcome To Atlanta (Cultural Anthropology with Joycelyn Wilson)

Welcome To Atlanta: Tracing the Rise of a Hip Hop and R&B Capital with Cultural Anthropology

By Sing For Science

5:00 AM EDT on September 25, 2024

Recorded Live at the Emory Ideas Fest at Emory University’s Oxford Campus on September 20, 2024. Join Atlanta Music Icon Jermaine Dupri and Georgia Tech ethnographer Dr. Joycelyn Wilson for a conversation about how Atlanta grew to become a cultural phenomenon. We go into detail about Jermaine’s start in the music business through school talent shows, Joycelyn’s theory about how one superintendent during the 1970s-80s helped elevate Atlanta’s post-civil rights creative class, cultural appropriation, Drake and more.

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