"Not Like Us": Using Hip Hop Sensibilities to Broaden Notions of Knowledge, Expertise, and How to Disseminate It

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium aims to engage participants who are interested in interrogating the tensions and opportunities of employing Hip Hop Pedagogy as a means to knowledge production in higher education and beyond. Educational spaces often rely on traditional written texts as the primary examples of valid knowledge and knowledge dissemination. Educators using Hip Hop sensibilities, which are informed by Hip Hop’s core tenets, aesthetic systems, and its educational elements, facilitate a broadening of notions of rigorous knowledge, expertise and knowledge dissemination. In this session, Hip Hop Education scholars will address how Hip Hop sensibilities informed the creation of products such as audio essays, podcasts, and performance art to expand notions of scholarly output and knowledge production.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Hip Hop Theories, Praxis & Pedagogies

Chairs

• Daren Graves, Simmons University

• Lauren Leigh Kelly, Rutgers University

Papers

• Black Feminist Poetics and MCing as Critical Scholarship and Knowledge Production - Qiana Cutts Givens, Mississippi State University

• Crank up the volume: Expanding the reach and circulation of scholarly albums and audio papers - Emery Marc Petchauer, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Can I Kick it? Piloting a Hip-Hop Based Tool for Active Listening - Ian Levy, Rutgers University; Michael Lipset, McGill University; Timothy D. Jones, HipHopEd

• The 3am Miracle: Co-Constructing Pedagogical Theory through Intergenerational Hip Hop Education Dialogue - Daren Graves, Simmons University; Lauren Leigh Kelly, Rutgers University

Discussant

• Todd Craig, CUNY - New York City College of Technology