Mapping the Legacy of Jazz and Hip-Hop in Queens

FAIN: MD-284782-22

Louis Armstrong House Museum (Corona, NY 11368-1226)
Regina Bain (Project Director: June 2021 to present)

Development of a digital project exploring the history of jazz and hip-hop in Queens, New York.

The Louis Armstrong House Museum requests a $30,000 Digital Projects for the Public Discovery Grant for the exploratory phase for Mapping Jazz and Hip-Hop in Queens, New York. The goal of the project is to raise broader awareness about one of the essential storylines in the history of American music: how the presence of a prolific jazz community in Queens had significant influence on the rise of hip-hop in the borough and beyond. We will tell this story via a multi-platform digital experience including a museum exhibit and a web/mobile interactive that facilitates users’ own journeys as they explore the neighborhoods that incubated both jazz and hip-hop over a span of nearly a century.