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Steven Hager
Steven Hager (born May 25, 1951, Illinois) is an American writer, journalist, filmmaker, and counterculture and cannabis rights activist. He is known for his long association with High Times magazine.
Hager was born on May 25, 1951, in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, the son of Lowell P. Hager and Frances Faye Erea Hager.
While a student in junior high, he established his first publication, the Cap'n Crunch Courier, a humor xerox zine that was given away free. Two years later, while a student at Urbana High School, he created The Tin Whistle, a monthly newspaper that was eventually distributed in four high schools in Central Illinois.
Hager briefly visited Haight-Ashbury in 1968, and the following year he attended the first Woodstock festival.
He obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater (Playwriting), and a Masters of Science in Journalism, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
After graduation, Hager moved to New York City, and worked for a number of magazines before becoming a reporter for the New York Daily News.
During this time, he began researching the hip-hop movement of the South Bronx. His first article on this subculture was published in 1982 on the cover of the Village Voice, and was the first time the words "hip hop" appeared in a major publication. Hager based his article on interviews with Afrika Bambaataa, founder of the Universal Zulu Nation, and one of the three original hip hop DJs (the others being Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash).
Not too long afterward, Hager sold his original story, "The Perfect Beat," to Harry Belafonte, who took some elements from it, including the subject and some of the characters' names, to produce the film Beat Street, released by Orion Pictures in 1984.
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Steven Hager
Steven Hager (born May 25, 1951, Illinois) is an American writer, journalist, filmmaker, and counterculture and cannabis rights activist. He is known for his long association with High Times magazine.
Hager was born on May 25, 1951, in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, the son of Lowell P. Hager and Frances Faye Erea Hager.
While a student in junior high, he established his first publication, the Cap'n Crunch Courier, a humor xerox zine that was given away free. Two years later, while a student at Urbana High School, he created The Tin Whistle, a monthly newspaper that was eventually distributed in four high schools in Central Illinois.
Hager briefly visited Haight-Ashbury in 1968, and the following year he attended the first Woodstock festival.
He obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater (Playwriting), and a Masters of Science in Journalism, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
After graduation, Hager moved to New York City, and worked for a number of magazines before becoming a reporter for the New York Daily News.
During this time, he began researching the hip-hop movement of the South Bronx. His first article on this subculture was published in 1982 on the cover of the Village Voice, and was the first time the words "hip hop" appeared in a major publication. Hager based his article on interviews with Afrika Bambaataa, founder of the Universal Zulu Nation, and one of the three original hip hop DJs (the others being Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash).
Not too long afterward, Hager sold his original story, "The Perfect Beat," to Harry Belafonte, who took some elements from it, including the subject and some of the characters' names, to produce the film Beat Street, released by Orion Pictures in 1984.