Painting without permission : hip-hop graffiti subculture / Janice Rahn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rahn, Janice, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Graffiti--Québec (Province)--Montréal.

Graffiti.

Hip-hop--Québec (Province)--Montréal.

Hip-hop.

Young artists--Québec (Province)--Montréal--Interviews.

Young artists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 226 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

More than ever education students are required to study the social context of youth culture in order to understand and design meaningful, motivational curiculum. There is a need to bridge the gap between theory and practice and to address the critical issues which confront the education of youth today. In studying hip-hop graffiti, the author explores a crucial but neglected area in the contemporary training of youth workers and educators. The author interviewed ten hip-hop graffiti writers of various race, class, and gender by audiotape and reviewed them until patterns emerged as themes, mainly issues concerning public space and community. She continued her relationship with the participants over a five-year period to observe the diversity and transformation of individuals within graffiti culture. The study begins with a literature review from Web resources, books, and subculture magazines on graffiti in order to define The Structure of Traditional Hip-Hop Graffiti Culture. This chapter lays the basic foundation familiar to all writers and points to the main issues in order to analyze how individual writers conform to or deviate from the standard subculture. The author addresses the complex issues which are layered behind a residue of illegally painted signatures, characters, and text. There is a need for the voices of young people to be heard, especially those who have found artistic integrity, and awareness of civic and political issues on their own terms. Youth are in an ongoing struggle to construct personal identities and communities that they want to live in. Hip-hop graffiti is only one example where they have created a space, within a peer-run environment, to respect and encourage their political powers, ideas, and skills. The book asks whether an understanding of how adolescents learn outside of school can generate alternative sites for curriculum theorizing.

Contents:

Cover

PAINTING WITHOUT PERMISSION

Contents

Introduction

NOTES

1 The Structure of Hip-Hop Graffiti Culture

BRIEF HISTORY AND TERMINOLOGY

INFLUENCES

FORMAL ASPECTS OF GRAFFITI

TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES

PRACTICE

SKILLS AND RESPECT

LANGUAGE

OLD SCHOOL

2 The Interviews

GENE

INTRODUCTION

MOTIVATION: IDENTITY

MOTIVATION: PUBLIC SPACE

WAYS OF LEARNING AND SKILLS

COMMUNITY, COLLABORATION, AND DIALOGUE

SCHOOLS

NOTE

DSTRBO

MOTIVATION: PUBLIC ART

WAYS OF LEARNING

ADOLESCENCE AND SCHOOLS

EVOKE

BACKGROUND AND INFLUENCES

SEAZ

BACKGROUND/INFLUENCES

BOREDOM

MOTIVATION: PUBLIC SPACE, RESISTANCE

DAES

INFLUENCES/PEERS

MOTIVATION

MOTIVATION: CHANGING PUBLIC SPACES

WAYS OF LEARNING: SELF-DIRECTED

WAYS OF LEARNING: SKILLS

SINGE

MOTIVATION: PERFORMING IN PUBLIC SPACES

SHANA

SCHOOL

TIMER

BACKGROUND INFLUENCES

MOTIVATION, IDENTITY, PEERS

ACE

WAYS OF LEARNING.

ADOLESCENCE AND SCHOOLS

EVOLUTION AND CHANGE

SWEP

INFLUENCES: PEERS

PUBLIC SPACE: REDPATH

WAYS OF LEARNING: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES

3 Community, Collaboration, and Dialogue

INTELLECTUAL INDEBTEDNESS, SHARED EXPERTISE

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE

TRADITION

PATTERNS OF APPROVAL AND REWARD (CITATION REFERENCING, PUBLICATION): SHOWING RESPECT

CONFLICT, COMPETITION, AND COLLABORATION

PATTERNS OF ARGUMENT

LEVELS OF COLLABORATION AND DIALOGUE

NETWORKING SKILLS: ART FOR CASH

AUTONOMY VERSUS A NEED TO BELONG

CONCLUSION

4 Performance in a Public Space: Place and Change

AUTONOMY/THE NEEDTO BELONG

CONTROVERSY

RESISTANCE AND "KEEPING IT REAL"

COURTING THE MAINSTREAM, YET "KEEPING IT REAL"

5 The Pedagogy of Hip-Hop Graffiti

COMMUNITY/COLLABORATION/DIALOGUE

DIALECTIC/PRAXIS

PEER INFLUENCE

COMMUNITY SPACE: CONTROVERSY AND RESISTANCE

RESISTANCE/POPULAR CULTURE

VOICE

IDENTITY

WAYS OF LEARNING: OLD AND NEW SCHOOL

PUBLIC PLACE, SPACE, AND CHANGE

Bibliography

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-221) and index.

ISBN:

9798400694899

9780313011436

0313011435

OCLC:

567919865