Event Title
The GENIUS of Hip Hop: Rhyme & Reason in the Classroom
Location
Student Union 335
Type of Presentation
50 minute presentation
Audience Type
High school students, High school teachers or counselors, College students, College teachers or advisors
Description
Have you ever listened to Hip Hop? Or watched a Hip Hop video on TV? Or listened to someone recite rhymes while they listened intently with their headphones on? If so, then you are in the right session! In this dynamic workshop, we start with the principle that Hip Hop performs an important social function, and consequently so do the images and messages generated within it. We start by examining why Hip Hop holds such an important place in our culture and explore its mass market global appeal. We seek to understand how something so controversial and marginal could become so mainstream and central. This session infuses historical contextualization as a backdrop against exploration of particular genres, artists, styles, sounds, images, and rhetorical techniques within the Hip Hop movement. By exploring the various literary, musical, and methodological techniques employed in Hip Hop, attendees will better see (and hear) how they can utilize this powerful medium to better connect with issues both in and outside of “today’s classroom.”
The GENIUS of Hip Hop: Rhyme & Reason in the Classroom
Student Union 335
Have you ever listened to Hip Hop? Or watched a Hip Hop video on TV? Or listened to someone recite rhymes while they listened intently with their headphones on? If so, then you are in the right session! In this dynamic workshop, we start with the principle that Hip Hop performs an important social function, and consequently so do the images and messages generated within it. We start by examining why Hip Hop holds such an important place in our culture and explore its mass market global appeal. We seek to understand how something so controversial and marginal could become so mainstream and central. This session infuses historical contextualization as a backdrop against exploration of particular genres, artists, styles, sounds, images, and rhetorical techniques within the Hip Hop movement. By exploring the various literary, musical, and methodological techniques employed in Hip Hop, attendees will better see (and hear) how they can utilize this powerful medium to better connect with issues both in and outside of “today’s classroom.”