Hip-Hop within and without the Academy

Karen Snell has taught both graduate and undergraduate level music education courses at Boston University and the Eastman School of Music. John Söderman is associate professor of music education at Malmö University.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Part 1 Ethnographic Hip-Hop Studies
1 Introduction
2 Young Hip-Hop Musicians Talk About Their Learning
and Creative Strategies
3 Towards a Swedish Professional Hip-Hop Identity
4 The Musical Personhood of Three Canadian
Turntablists: Implications for Transformative
Collaborative Practice in Music Education
5 First Nations Hip-Hop Artists’ Identity and Voice

Part 2 Academization of Hip-Hop
6 Introduction to Part 2
7 The Formation of a Scientific Field: Hip-Hop
Academicus
8 What is at Stake? How Hip-Hop is Legitimized
and Discussed Within University
9 Turntablism: A Vehicle for Connecting Community
and School Music Making and Learning

Part 3 Educational and Artistic Implications of Hip-Hop
10 Introduction to Part 3
11 Jean Grae and Toni Blackman: An Educational and
Aesthetical Conversation with two Female Emcees
12 Folkbildning through Hip-Hop: A Presentation of
two Rappers and one Swedish Hip-Hop Organization
13 How Critical Pedagogy and Democratic Theory can
inform Teaching Music, and especially, Teaching
Hip-Hop
14 The Informal Learning Practices of Hip-Hop
Musicians
15 Outroduction: Implications for Music and Music
Education

Glossary of Terms
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors