Further Reading

A teacher’s primary role is to find a connection, any connection, with their student which will inspire learning.

History

The Evolution of Rap Music in the US http://teachersinstitute.yale.edu/curriculum/units/1993/4/93.04.04.x.html

Peer Reviewed Articles

A. A. Akom (2009) Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy as a Form of Liberatory Praxis, Equity & Excellence in Education, 42:1, 52-66, DOI: 10.1080/10665680802612519

Aisha Durham, Brittney C. Cooper, and Susana M. Morris, “The Stage Hip-Hop Feminism Built: A New Directions Essay,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38, no. 3 https://doi.org/10.1086/668843

Dr. Aisha Durham, associate professor of communication at the University of South Florida, presented “Home with Hip Hop Feminism” as part of the Department of English and Writing’s Scholars Symposia series

H. Samy Alim (2007) Critical Hip-Hop Language Pedagogies: Combat, Consciousness, and the Cultural Politics of Communication, Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 6:2, 161-176, DOI: 10.1080/15348450701341378

Layli Phillips, Kerri Reddick-Morgan, and Dionne Patricia Stephens (2005 ) “Oppositional Consciousness within an Oppositional Realm: The Case of Feminism and Womanism in Rap and Hip Hop, 1976-2004” The Journal of African American History 2005 90:3, 253-277

Morrell, E. (2002). Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Popular Culture: Literacy Development among Urban Youth. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 46(1), 72-77. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.massey.ac.nz/stable/40017507

Peoples, W. A. (2007). “Under Construction”: Identifying Foundations of Hip-Hop Feminism and Exploring Bridges between Black Second-Wave and Hip-Hop Feminisms¹. Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 8(1), 19-52. Duke University Press. Retrieved March 13, 2019, from Project MUSE database.

Petchauer, E. (2009). Framing and Reviewing Hip-Hop Educational Research. Review of Educational Research, 79(2), 946–978. https://doi.org/10.3102/0034654308330967

Rice, J. (2003). The 1963 Hip-Hop Machine: Hip-Hop Pedagogy as Composition. College Composition and Communication, 54(3), 453-471. doi:10.2307/3594173

Stovall, D. (2006). We can Relate: Hip-Hop Culture, Critical Pedagogy, and the Secondary Classroom. Urban Education, 41(6), 585–602. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085906292513

Books

Hip Hop Genius: Remixing High School Education, George Clinton

Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, Jeff Chang

Educating for a Change, Rick Arnold Bev Burke Carl James D’Arcy Martin Barb Thomas

Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip-Hop Culture, Yvonne Bynoe

It’s All about the Benjamins: The Marriage between Hip Hop, Adolescence, and Consumerism, Jade Caines

Hip Hop America, Nelson George

Hate, Rape and Rap, Tipper Gore

The Hip-hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture, Bakari Kitwana

Breaking Down Hip-Hop, Sarah Rodman

Tha Global Cipha: Hip-hop Culture and Consciousness, James G Spady

Short Videos

Hip-Hop & Shakespeare? Akala at TED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSbtkLA3GrY

WOKE Promo Video Testament Rapper/Actor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVkfAlCGhIQ

Bell Hooks Cultural Criticism of Rap Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtoanes_L_g&feature=related

A. Durham “Home with Hip Hop Feminism” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3YGNCY5pM8&feature=youtu.be

Hip Hop Genius: Remixing High School Education https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLMdkGk5Ofo

Hip-Hop Images Women and Exploitation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7gUu4DYZO0&feature=related How Women Are Portrayed in Hip Hop Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2q5zlgkKas

Radio

Nuttin’ But Stringz: Hip-Hop Violin https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6565133

Educators Use Rap Music as Teaching Tool https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1174887

Exploring African Hip-Hop https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4201976

Geeksta Rap Brings Education to Music https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4503026

Bringing ‘Def Poetry Jam’ to U.S. High Schools https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4276475

William Blake Remixed on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ipn2rOyWjs

Films

HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes – Addresses toxic masculinity, homophobia and materialism in Hip-Hop.

Style Wars

Wild Style

Reading Between the Rhymes

Websites

Run by Jeff Chang author of the book Can’t Stop Won’t Stop http://cantstopwontstop.com/

Review and further information on http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/hiphop/film.htm

Articles

Our Inner Genius: Hip-Hop As A Model To Disrupt Education – https://www.teachthought.com/learning/our-inner-genius-hip-hop-as-model-to-disrupt-education/

Basic Intro to all things Hip-Hop – http://cdn.itvs.org/hip_hop-issue-brief-hip-hop.pdf

Masculinity – http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/hiphop/masculinity.htm

Misogyny and Homophobia – http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/hiphop/masculinity.htm

Media Literacy –  http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/hiphop/literacy.htm

Hip-Hop Timeline – http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/hiphop/timeline.htm

Basic Terminology – http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/hiphop/glossary.htm

Hip-Hop as the New language of Civil rights – https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1178621

Success Story from the USA https://www.edutopia.org/hip-hop-teaching-classroom