Where They At: New Orleans Bounce & Hip-Hop in Words and Pictures July 21, 2010

The Ogden presents 'Where They At: New Orleans Bounce and Hip-Hop in Words and Pictures' by photographer Aubrey Edwards and journalist Alison Fensterstock. This exhibition celebrates the founders, architects, and players in New Orleans hip-hop and the uniquely regional rap known as bounce music, a phenomenon that evolved from the city's housing projects. Photographs, oral histories, and video footage compiled by photographer Aubrey Edwards and journalist Alison Fensterstock document the passing of seminal beats from New Orleans music traditions to a new generation in the late 1980s to create this new voice in Southern roots music. This multi-media exhibition draws a line to the present-day New Orleans diaspora, as Hurricane Katrina has scattered a once tight-knit bounce and hip-hop community whose music only existed at home -- a home that has been redefined physically and culturally.