James Braxton Peterson

Hip Hop Headphones (eBook, PDF)

A Scholar's Critical Playlist

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Hip Hop Headphones is a crash course in Hip Hop culture. Featuring definitions, lectures, academic essays, and other scholarly discussions and resources, Hip Hop Headphones documents the scholarship of Dr. James B. Peterson, founder of Hip Hop Scholars-an organization devoted to developing the educational potential of Hip Hop. Defining Hip Hop from multi-disciplinary perspectives that embrace the elemental forms of Hip Hop Culture (b-boying, dj-ing, rapping, and graffiti art), Hip Hop Headphones is the definitive guide to how Hip Hop culture can be used in the classroom to engage and inspire students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501308260
• Artikelnr.: 48421621

Autorenporträt

James Braxton Peterson is the Director of Africana Studies and Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Critical Listening in Critical Times
SECTION 1DEFINITIONS
1Re: Definition
2Becoming and Being a Hip Hop Scholar
SECTION 2SPEECH AND BEATS
3From Ashy to Classy
4Best Never Heard: Playlist Pedagogy in the Hip Hop Classroom
SECTION 3SCHOLARLY REVIEWS
5Angry Black White Boyz
6A Review of Mansbach's Rage is Back
7Gangsta Scholarship: A Review of Nuthin' but a "G" Thang
8A Review of Beats, Rhymes, and Life (ATCQ Documentary)
9What Conservative Men Think . . . A Review of "What Black Men Think"
SECTION 4RAP AROUND THE TABLE
10Race, Theory, and Gender in Hip Hop's Global Future
SECTION 5RAPADEMICS
11These Three Words
12Corner Boy Masculinity
13Rewriting the Remix
14Epilogue
APPENDICES
A Collection of Hip Hop Syllabi