Global Hip Hop Studies (Journal): Special issue Hip Hop Atlas edited by Sina A. Nitzsche and Greg Schick. The issue includes chapters on Ghana, Senegal, and South Africa, as well as a chapter on the Trinity International Hip-Hop Festival.

In 2023, hip hop culture celebrates its 50th anniversary since its founding in The Bronx borough of New York City. The Global Hip Hop Studies journal takes this historic date as an occasion to explore the culture’s complex histories, narratives, and meanings worldwide in its Special ‘Hip Hop Atlas’ Double Issue. Initiated by American hip hop producer Greg Schick and co-edited with German hip hop scholar Sina A. Nitzsche, the double issue, for the first time in the journal’s history, presents sixteen concise histories from all continents of the world including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Germany, Ghana, India, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, Senegal, South Africa, Thailand and Ukraine. The articles explain to larger audiences interested in global hip hop culture when and how hip hop first arrived in a given country and how it has developed since its arrival. How does it combine global with local cultural, linguistic, and musical forms to create unique style(s) and modes of expression? What role does it play today in its respective contexts? Providing an analytic overview of the articles written by artists, scholars, and educators, the editors argue that after more than 50 years hip hop’s global evolution continues to be a powerful, fascinating, and dynamic process that ranges from its existence as an established art form, popular culture and research subject in some world regions to moving towards such a status in others.