ON AIR PRESENTS: LIVE SERIES AT LUDLOW HOUSE NYC | The Almanac of Rap: Donwill & Regan Sommer McCoy

Smithsonian’s Race to Preserve Audio Cassettes

CASSETTE: A Documentary Mixtape Screening at Maysles Documentary Center

BUY TICKETS HERE Post-screening discussion with filmmaker Zack Taylor and Mixtape Museum Founder Regan Sommer McCoy CASSETTE: A DOCUMENTARY MIXTAPE … More

Mixtapes, T-Shirts and Even a Typeface Measure the Rise of Hip-Hop

Never Mind Spotify—Remember the Lost Art of the Mixtape

I made my first mixtape before I had the know-how or the gear—that’s how badly I wanted into the world of big brothers and attic bedrooms. The spirit was willing, the tech unable. I placed my Panasonic next to my brother’s stereo speaker, played my favorite songs from his collection—Skynyrd and Springsteen—and pressed record.

The Unending Evolution Of The Mixtape: “Without Mixtapes, There Would Be No Hip-Hop”

Harlem World Released

Harlem World is a timely and powerful record of mixtape history. Mael masterfully weaves soulful stories into a cinematic narrative, delivering a remarkable collection of mixtape memories. Arriving on hip hop’s golden anniversary, this classic is a love letter to the genre, our hip hop heroes, community collections and archives, Harlem, and the cassette.

— Regan Sommer McCoy, The Mixtape Museum

A Snapshot in Hip Hop featuring Angel Ibanez

A Snapshot in Hip Hop: A Conversation with Angel Ibanez and Friends The School of the Visual Arts DEI Office … More

Why Hip-Hop Has Many Fathers by Peter Noel

Mixtape Sites Like DatPiff Propelled Rap. Can They Be Preserved?

Mixtape Museum joins Collections of Culture: 50 Years of Hip Hop Inside Libraries, Museums and Archives

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, February 24, 2023 CONTACT: Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska, 917 702 0016, ekern@queenslibrary.org **Press Release/Request for Coverage** QUEENS PUBLIC … More

Regrets

Now when I hear certain songs, I think about my collection and its significance to my biography and the culture.

The Enduring Romance of Mixtapes

The Enduring Romance of Mixtapes
By Andee Tagle

Mixtape Museum Chief Curator Appointed as Virginia Union University’s Visiting Hip Hop Scholar

During McCoy’s appointment as Visiting Scholar, she will expand The Mixtape Museum’s Mixtape Memory Collection to include Virginia-based mixtape memories.

Get Your Mind Right: Hip Hop, Entrepreneurship, and Wellness

Join us for an in-conversation about Hip Hop, Entrepreneurship, and Wellness. Joining us will be: Dave Bellevue, Oxymorrons, Swag for … More

July 5: Hip Hop Heresies at Strand Bookstore

Join us for an in-person event with Associate Professor and Co-Director of the LGBTQ+ Center at St. John’s University Shanté Paradigm … More

Memory, Mixtape & Scholarship | Hip Hop at Virginia Union University

Hip Hop at VUU is dedicated to exploring African American history and culture through a Hip Hop lens. This exploration … More

MIXTAPE Documentary presented by Tribeca and Universal Music Group

The premiere event of Mixtape will take place Thursday, April 7, at The United Palace in Washington Heights in New … More

Mixtape Nostalgia

“Mixtape Nostalgia is a deeply personal book that diligently documents the evolution of the mixtape. Crafted like a perfectly curated mixtape, it traces the ebb and flow of the medium through its analog and digital eras, across genres, while thoughtfully centering the voices of ‘mixtapers.’ Jehnie I. Burns presents a masterpiece that’s essential to mixtape scholarship.”

– Regan Sommer McCoy, Founder and Chief Curator, Mixtape Museum

Archiving Hip Hop: Community-Based Approaches

REGISTER HERE The Association for Recorded Sound Collections Continuing Education Webinar Series presents: Archiving Hip Hop: Community Based Approaches. Since … More