Hip-hop headphones
Subtitle: a scholar's critical playlist
By: James Braxton Peterson
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781501308253; 9781501308246
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Rap (Music); Higher Education; Music in education; Humanistic Education; History and criticism; Influence; English language; Study and teaching; Hip-hop; Curricula; Composition and exercises; Universities and colleges; Interdisciplinary approach in education
Description: Defining hip hop from multi-disciplinary perspectives that embrace the elemental forms of hip hop culture (b-boying, dj-ing, rapping, and graffiti art), this is a guide to how hip hop culture can be used in the classroom to engage and inspire students.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-275), discography (pages 241-251), and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Critical listening in critical times; title: Definitions. Re: Definition ; Becoming and being a hip-hop scholar; title: Speech and beats. From ashy to classy ; Best never heard : playlist pedagogy in the hip-hop classroom; title: Scholarly reviews. Angry black white boyz ; A review of Mansbach's Rage is back ; Gangsta scholarship : a review of Nuthin but a "G" thang ; A review of Beats, rhymes and life (ATCQ documentary) ; What conservative men think... A review of "What black men think"; title: Rap around the table. Race theory and gender in hip hop's global future roundtable (Participants: Treva Lindsay, Regina Bradley, and Scott Heath, Moderator: James Peterson); title: Rapademics. These three words ; Corner boy masculinity ; Rewriting the remix; title: Conclusions. Resisting prescriptions; title: Epilogue. B-boy rules for hip-hop scholars; title: Appendices. A collection of hip-hop syllabi ; The play list pedagogy.