Hip Hop in the Museum

I love Philology .

I love to find out the deep meaning of words and their evolution in culture.

I love the curator's stories. They are about passion and mystery. hidden stories that they dug in and found about are my cup of coffee.

The Hebrew word for Curator is “O-ts-er” .it’s derived? from the biblical word for treasure.

The Academy for the Hebrew language searched for a suitable word for a new profession - Curator .

?They decided that to relate to the collection of the treasure? and not to the activities that the curator’s practice as in English. The word curator comes from Latin : To take care.

Last week I joined Martin the curator for the "Milestones of Hip-Hop - the Mother City Edition" in the StaudtPalece - City museum in Stuttgart. He curated the Hip Hop exhibition and shared with us his challenges to present the evolution of street culture to the museum.

Visitors entered a record store from the seventies. At that time the records were placed according to styles: Classic music, Pop, Country .

To widen the perspective about the era he asked famous Hip Hop singers and groups to choose their twenty favorite records.Flipping through the box one? could learn about singers’ personal hip-hop favorite taste.

The surprise is the square cartoon records. They had a special chip on their bottom. Visitors could insert them on a stylish patihone and listen to their favorite music.

Visiting the exhibition is a special experience going back in time and shere around the city where you could see Hip Hop dancers at the park. The curator curated the music that we hear and feel and i thanked him for presenting his favorite record by Sugar Hill.

On my way home i found the the term Hip Hop.

satirical play from 1671 called The Rehersal, thought to be written by George Villiers, and others. A character in the play named Bayes says: "Ay, is't not, I gad, ha? For, to go off hip hop, hip hop, upon this occasion, is a thousand times better than any conclusion in the world, I gad."