Beats Rhymes and Classroom Life

TitleBeats Rhymes and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2009
AuthorHill, Marc Lamont
Number of Pages170
PublisherTeachers College Press
CityNew York
Publication Languageeng
ISBN or ASIN Number2147483647
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For over a decade, educators have looked to capitalize on the appeal of hip-hop culture, sampling its language, techniques, and styles as a way of reaching out ot students. But beyong a fashionable hipness, what does hip-hop have to offer our schools? In this revelatory new book, Marc Lamont Hill shows how a serious engagement with hip-hop culture can affecft classroom life in extraordinary ways.