See You at the Crossroads: Hip Hop Scholarship at the Intersections

See You at the Crossroads: Hip Hop Scholarship at the Intersections Dialectical Harmony, Ethics, Aesthetics, and Panoply of Voices offers several essential contributions to the field of Hip Hop studies. It presents several snapshots of innovative work within (and at the intersections between) several intellectual fields of study. The collection of essays reveal the dialectical harmony and solidarity with which Hip Hop scholars, activists, and artists collectively mobilize, stand together, and collaboratively sustain in hopes of realizing social justice and actualizing global liberation. Several leading scholars in Hip Hop studies also provide insight to the aesthetic, the affordances, the ethics, and panoply of voices in Hip Hop culture. Finally, through empirical research, direct artistic engagement and critical pedagogical praxis, the contributors demonstrate how Hip Hop Based Education (HHBE) catalyzes civic engagement and democratic participation in schools through the use of democratic aesthetic tools to galvanize social change.

See You at the Crossroads: Hip Hop Scholarship at the Intersections Dialectical Harmony, Ethics, Aesthetics, and Panoply of Voices offers several essential contributions to the field of Hip Hop studies. It presents several snapshots of innovative work within (and at the intersections between) several intellectual fields of study. The collection of essays reveal the dialectical harmony and solidarity with which Hip Hop scholars, activists, and artists collectively mobilize, stand together, and collaboratively sustain in hopes of realizing social justice and actualizing global liberation. Several leading scholars in Hip Hop studies also provide insight to the aesthetic, the affordances, the ethics, and panoply of voices in Hip Hop culture. Finally, through empirical research, direct artistic engagement and critical pedagogical praxis, the contributors demonstrate how Hip Hop Based Education (HHBE) catalyzes civic engagement and democratic participation in schools through the use of democratic aesthetic tools to galvanize social change.

Preface: Hip Hop at the Intersection of Passion, Promise and Possibility; Hip Hop Education & Critical Pedagogy; 1. Hip-Hop and Pedagogy, More Than Meets the Eye: What Do We Expect, What Will We Measure?; 2. A Pedagogy of Cultural Sustainability: YEGH3 (Edmonton Hip-Hop History) as a Decentralized Model for Hip-Hop’s Global Microhistories; 3. “We Do It for The People”: Spoken Word Poets and Hip-Hop Artists as Agents of Social Change; Hip Hop Spirituality & Identity; 4. Baptized in Dirty Water: An Ontology of Hip-Hop’s Manufacturing of Socio-Religious Discourse for Contextual Spirituality; 5. You Better Lose Yourself!: Reformulated Praxis Theory, Spirituality, and Hip-Hop Aesthetics; 6. Fashioning Self, Battling Society: Hip-Hop Graffi ti Jackets as a Method of Positive Identity Development; 7. “I Do Not Need Help to Defi ne Myself”: The Self-Location of Somali Immigrant Youth through Discourse and Agency; 8. Are We There Yet?: The Political Power of ‘Aboriginal Hip-Hop’ in Australia; Hip Hop Therapy & Hip Hop Psychology; 9. From Voiceless to Victorious: Street Sounds and Social Skills for Gang-Involved Urban Youth; 10. Exploring the Healing Powers of Hip-Hop: Increasing Therapeutic Effi cacy, Utilizing the Hip-Hop Culture as an Alternative Platform for Expression, Connection; 11. Theorizing Activism: Hip Hop & Human Development – The Eternal Dance between Theory and Practice; Author Biographies.