Stevie Johnson 06/29/2022
Description
DJ, producer and educator Stevie 'Dr. View' Johnson talks about his early exposure to hip-hop as a child and the impact his mom and first grade teacher had on his educational trajectory. He describes his experience attending the University of Oklahoma, where he discovered a love and talent for DJing, and his pursuit of higher education, creating a hip hop dissertation album for his PhD. Johnson discusses his creative and deeply collaborative and community-based work in numerous projects including The Space Program and his Invisible Man album. He also talks about producing the Fire in Little Africa multimedia project that featured local artists and consisted of multiple components including a hip hop album signed to Motown Records, as well as the resulting conflict between creative freedom and executive interests that took away Johnson's control of the project.
| Date(s) | 6/29/2022 |
| Call Number | ANT_016 |
| Subjects | Art as Activism in North Tulsa, Tulsa's Greenwood District, Community engagement, DJs, Commodification of tragedy African American sound recording executives and producers, Disc jockeys, Education, Higher, Hip-hop, Interviews, Political art, Tulsa Race Massacre (Tulsa Oklahoma : 1921) |
| Interviewee(s) | Stevie Johnson |
| Interviewer(s) | Autumn Brown |