Hip Hop Headphones: A Scholar's Critical Playlist

by James Braxton Peterson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501308277
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	08/25/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	296
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Hip Hop Headphones represents an extension of Professor Peterson's scholarly and critical intervention in the field of Critical Hip Hop Studies and captures the fullness of his scholarly interests as a quintessentially interdisciplinary scholar, committed to both high theory and popular accessibility. Offering a fresh nuanced assessment of hip hop culture's foundational moment, Hip Hop Headphones has the feel of a scholarly mixtape, not unlike the mixed genre style that W.E.B. Du Bois introduced with The Souls of Black Folk.
Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of Black Popular Culture, Department of African and African-American Studies, Duke University, USA, and author of Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities (2013)

[A] detailed, thorough critical reading of Hip-Hop culture and Hip-Hop in popular culture ... [and] an enjoyable read for those interested in the genre and students of music theory and popular culture.
We Are Cult

[Posits] some really provocative questions, and [relays] some real life experiences that will help readers think about what they're getting out of hip hop.
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