Hip-Hop Headphones: A Scholar’s Critical Playlist

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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. Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Critical Listening in Critical Times Part 1 Definitions Chapter 1 Re: Definition I Defining rap II The elements and eras of Hip-Hop culture III Hip Hop’s holy trinity IV Defining Hip Hop in a racial context Chapter 2 Becoming and Being a Hip-Hop Scholar I II III IV Part 2 Speech and Beats Chapter 3 From Ashy to Classy I Ashy is classy II The phrases of poverty in Hip Hop III Bursting the bling bubble Chapter 4 Best Never Heard: Playlist Pedagogy in the Hip-Hop Classroom Part 3 Scholarly Reviews Chapter 5 Angry Black White Boyz Chapter 6 A Review of Mansbach’s Rage is Back Chapter 7 Gangsta Scholarship: A Review of Nuthin but a “G” Thang Chapter 8 A Review of Beats, Rhymes and Life (ATCQ Documentary) Chapter 9 What Conservative Men Think … A Review of “What Black Men Think” Part 4 Rap Around the Table Chapter 10 Race Theory and Gender in Hip Hop’s Global Future Roundtable Participants: Treva Lindsay, Regina Bradley, and Scott Heath Moderator: James Peterson Part 5 Rapademics Chapter 11 These Three Words Censoring and interpreting Hip-Hop culture in the public sphere II III Chapter 12 Corner Boy Masculinity Corner-boy masculinity: Intersections of inner-city manhood Chapter 13 Rewriting the Remix College composition and the educational elements of Hip Hop The educational elements of Hip-Hop culture Remixing is rewriting Teaching Hip-Hop Composition The design of Hip-Hop composition Hip-Hop composition in practice Conclusions: Resisting Prescriptions Epilogue: B-Boy Rules for Hip-Hop Scholars Appendix: A Collection of Hip-Hop Syllabi Keepin’ it real: writing in and about Hip-Hop culture “The Literature of Hip Hop Culture” English 409, Sec. 10 Washington College, Tuesday 4 pm–6:30 pm “Critical Approaches to Hip Hop Culture” English 397, Sec. 01 Bucknell University, Wednesdays 7:00 pm–9:52 pm “Hip Hop Culture and Composition” English 101, Sec. 07 Bucknell University, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 9:00 am–9:52 am “ME, MYSELF, and I: AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN HIP HOP CULTURE”1 AAS 396/ENGL 396, Section 010 ENGL 496 Section 011 Lehigh University, Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:20 am–10:35 am Africana Studies 295: Spring/Summer Term 2015 “Concepts of the Underground in Black Literature and Culture”  Appendix: The Play List Pedagogy All Black everything playlist Black prison narratives playlist Education policy playlist Allusions to Emmett Till in Hip Hop Conceptualizations of flight in Hip Hop A language and race playlist The Odes of/to Hip-Hop culture A political unconscious of Hip-Hop playlist The repetition (as a figure) playlist The suicide dayz playlist The most likely to be sampled playlist Twitter rap narratives Weapon metaphors in Hip Hop  Notes Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Conclusion Chapter 14 Appendices Bibliography Index