<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2025/cristina-shaul.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>04/22/2025</pubDate><title>From the Classroom to the Cassette — Music Major Showcases a Decade of University Hip-Hop</title><description>Cristina Shaul ’25, a music major, turned an independent research project into a hands-on lesson in album production — compiling, licensing, designing, and marketing a limited-edition cassette that celebrates 10 years of creativity in the University’s Hip-Hop Technology and Production course.</description><hide-description/><author>Cristina Shaul ’25</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>April 22, 2025</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/arts-sciences/news/blog/2025/cristina-shaul.jpeg" alt="Cristina Shaul ’25"/></image><image-caption>Cristina Shaul ’25</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>class-of-2025</tag><tag>college-arts-sciences</tag><tag>name-mark-tavern</tag><tag>name-patrick-rivers</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>program-ug-music</tag><tag>year-2025</tag></tags></item>