Author Talk with
Joycelyn Wilson

Atlanta History Center's Author Talk series features a variety of breakthrough, award-winning, and bestselling authors of history, biography, fiction, memoir, and more.

Learn from Joycelyn Wilson how Hip Hop functions as a powerful design methodology through remix, storytelling, and cultural memory.

Hacking Hip Hop is a methodological memoir and critical study that positions Hip Hop as a powerful system of design thinking. Drawing on autoethnography, cultural analysis, and over two decades of teaching and research, Joycelyn Wilson introduces “Design Remix Logic” (DRL) to capture how Hip Hop works as a remix system – for culture, sound, memory, and media — to create meaning and spark.