Hip-Hop Within and Without the Academy.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (237 pages)
Hip-Hop Within And Without The Academy -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1 Ethnographic Hip-Hop Studies -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Young Hip-Hop Musicians Talk About Their Learning and Creative Strategies -- 3 Towards a Swedish Professional Hip-Hop Identity -- 4 The Musical Personhood of Three Canadian Turntablists: Implications for Transformative Collaborative Practice in Music Education -- 5 First Nations Hip-Hop Artists' Identity and Voice -- Part 2 Academization of Hip-Hop -- 6 Introduction to Part 2 -- 7 The Formation of a Scientific Field: Hip-Hop Academicus -- 8 What is at Stake? How Hip-Hop is Legitimized and Discussed Within University -- 9 Turntablism: A Vehicle for Connecting Community and School Music Making and Learning -- Part 3 Educational and Artistic Implications of Hip-Hop -- 10 Introduction to Part 3 -- 11 Jean Grae and Toni Blackman: An Educational and Aesthetical Conversation with Two Female Emcees -- 12 Folkbildning through Hip-Hop: A Presentation of Two Rappers and One Swedish Hip-Hop Organization -- 13 How Critical Pedagogy and Democratic Theory can Inform Teaching Music, and Especially, Teaching Hip-Hop -- 14 The Informal Learning Practices of Hip-Hop Musicians -- 15 Outroduction: Implications for Education and Music Education -- Glossary of Terms -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors.
As a platform for communicating the issues of marginalized peoples, hip-hop remains a universal, relevant art form. Moreover, hip-hop culture's affirmation of liberation pedagogy has great potential not only to address many current issues in educational contexts, but also to create more egalitarian ambitions in western public schools.