In Jem Cohen’s 1996 film Lost Book Found the narrator, a pushcart vendor in New York City, meets a man who survives by fishing treasure from the rivers that run beneath the sidewalk grates. The man ...

When hip-hop first started in 1973 at a party thrown by Clive Campbell, also known as DJ Kool Herc, it might have sounded different from the hip-hop we know today, but much of the groundwork has ...

There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the Grammys. At this year’s awards, taking place on Feb. 2, hip-hop and house ...