Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity

Shares the author's experience teaching a hip-hop centered English literature course in a Philadelphia high school where rap music, turntablism, breakdancing, graffiti culture, and other aspects of hip-hop were incorporated into the curriculum. This book shows that hip-hop culture is the opportunity to affect students' lives in extraordinary ways.

• | Author: Marc Lamont Hill
• | Publisher: Teachers' College Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 23, 2009
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780807749616
• | ISBN-10: 0807749613