Crate Digging for Truth: Advancing Hip-Hop-Inspired Research Methodologies Through Sound

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session Two
  In Roundtable Session: Celebrating and Innovating: The Legacy and Future of Hip-Hop Research (Table 5)

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to advance critical qualitative research methodologies that are informed by the sonics, literacies, aesthetics, and poetics of Hip Hop. The author argues for a Hip Hop-inspired design framework that includes four research principles.The paper offers an opportunity for us to reimagine composition studies, digital and media literacies, and multimodality in qualitative research. This paper asks us to consider the complex ways that sound offers opportunities for deep and critical listening in K-12 classrooms. The author demonstrates and argues for the doing of Hip Hop as-in-for research through the discussion of a multimodal Hip Hop dissertation album.

Author

• Brian Mooney, Fairleigh Dickinson University
  Presenting Author