Felicia Angeja Viator

Felicia Angeja Viator is Assistant Professor of History at San Francisco State University. Before teaching she was known as "DJ Neta," one of the first women DJs in the Bay Area's hip-hop and dancehall scenes. That perspective has informed her research and helped her write with authority about music culture. Her acclaimed book To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America––the first book about rap ever published by Harvard University Press––is a history of hip-hop’s commercial trajectory. It is also a story about Los Angeles myths, bad cops, punk rock panics, MTV, and so much drama in the LBC.