Hip Hop Legend Afrika Bambaataa Named Visiting Scholar At Cornell - Campus Progress

Hip Hop Legend Named Visiting Scholar At Cornell
US rap artist Afrika Bambaataa performs during the first day of the Wireless Festival in Hyde Park, Central London on July 4, 2009. AFP PHOTO/Ben Stansall (Photo credit should read BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images)
US rap artist Afrika Bambaataa performs during the first day of the Wireless Festival in Hyde Park, Central London on July 4, 2009. AFP PHOTO/Ben Stansall (Photo credit should read BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images)

He's already a hip hop legend, social activist, and pioneer in the music world, but now DJ Afrika Bambaataa will add another profession to his already impressive resume: Ivy league visiting scholar at Cornell University.

Bambaataa--who is widely accepted as the originator of electrofunk sound--joins a growing list of prominent hip hop artists exploring the world of academia. Earlier this fall, New York University recruited the Roots' ?uestlove who teaches a two credit music course at New York University. NYU also picked hip hop producer Swizz Beatz as their Producer in Residence for the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at the Tisch School of the Arts.

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