Hip-hop culture in college students' lives
Subtitle: elements, embodiment, and higher edutainment
By: by Emery Petchauer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415889704
Subjects: Social life and customs; Higher Education; EDUCATION / Higher; College students; Education in popular culture; Attitudes; EDUCATION / General; Hip-hop
Description: "College campuses have become rich sites of hip-hop culture and knowledge production. Despite the attention that campus personnel and researchers have paid to student life, the field of higher education has often misunderstood the ways that hip-hop culture exists in college students' lives. Based upon in-depth interviews, observations of underground hip-hop spaces, and the author's own active roles in hop-hop communities, this book provides a rich portrait of how college students who create hip-hop--both male and female, and of multiple ethnicities--embody its principles and aesthetics on campuses across the United States. The book looks beyond rap music, school curricula, and urban adolescents to make the empirical argument that hip-hop has a deep cultural logic, habits of mind, and worldview components that students apply to teaching, learning, and living on campus. Hip-Hop Culture in College Students' Lives provides critical insights for researchers and campus personnel working with college students, while pushing cultural observers to rethink the basic ways that people live hip-hop." "-- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.