Thursday, February 6, 2025 7:30pm
About this Event
1436 Evansdale Drive, Morgantown, WV 26506
https://eberly.wvu.edu/eberly-roundtableDoors/Merch table open: 7:00 pm
Reception follows after
Hosted by: Jomo "JK" Turner, Executive Producer of No Options
Free and open to the public
Featuring Hip-hop Artists
Monstalung, Deep Jackson, Shelem, GRDN
About the Album
No Options: Hip-Hop in Appalachia from June Appal Recordings
Hip-hop is alive and vital in Appalachia. The release of the album No Options is the first to showcase what Dr. William Turner calls “mountaintop hip-hop.” Fearless in what they say and peerless in how they say it, the artists on this album are respected within tight knit rural and urban communities across Appalachia but are for the most part unknown beyond their hometowns, hollows, and online groups.
"Hip-hop in Appalachia is a testament to the enduring power of music to forge connections and give voice to the marginalized."
—Jomo “JK” Turner, Executive Producer
Given its release during the worldwide observation of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, No Options could not be more timely. While recent celebrations of the genre have acknowledged the presence of hip-hop in many other communities across the U.S. and beyond, Appalachia has been almost entirely ignored as a source of hip-hop artists and recordings.
We hope that this year’s Eberly Roundtable will help spread the word about and prompt reflection on the present intersection between race, place and cultural identity.
About the Eberly Roundtable
The Eberly Roundtable, hosted annually by the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, provides an interdisciplinary forum open to the campus and community. Each year, the event brings together scholars, artists and community members to engage on a topic of central importance to WVU’s land-grant mission and regional identity.
The Eberly College of Arts and Sciences would like to thank our WVU co-sponsors for their generous support of this year's program: WVU Center for Black Culture, College of Creative Arts and Media, Provost Office, WVU Research Office, and WVU Humanities Center
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