Freedom moves : hip hop knowledges, pedagogies, and futures / edited by H. Samy Alim, Jeff Chang, and Casey Philip Wong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alim, H. Samy, editor.

Chang, Jeff, editor.

Wong, Casey Philip, editor.

Series:

California Series in Hip Hop Studies ; 3.

Hip Hop Studies ; v.3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hip-hop--Influence.

Hip-hop.

Rap (Music)--Political aspects.

Rap (Music).

Rap (Music)--Social aspects.

Rap musicians--Political activity.

Rap musicians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2023.

Summary:

This expansive collection sets the stage for the next generation of Hip Hop scholarship as we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the movement's origins. Celebrating 50 years of Hip Hop cultural history, Freedom Moves travels across generations and beyond borders to understand Hip Hop's transformative power as one of the most important arts movements of our time. This book gathers critically acclaimed scholars, artists, activists, and youth organizers in a wide-ranging exploration of Hip Hop as a musical movement, a powerful catalyst for activism, and a culture that offers us new ways of thinking and doing freedom. Rooting Hip Hop in Black freedom culture, this state-of-the-art collection presents a globally diverse group of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian American, Arab, European, North African, and South Asian artists, activists, and thinkers. The "knowledges" cultivated by Hip Hop and spoken word communities represent emerging ways of being in the world. Freedom Moves examines how educators, artists, and activists use these knowledges to inform and expand how we understand our communities, our histories, and our futures.

Contents:

Making Freedom Move(s): Hip Hop Knowledges, Pedagogies, and Futures

Part I: Black, Indigenous, and Diasporic Knowledges

1. Sweat the Technique: The Politics and Poetics of Hip Hop

2. Know the Ledge(s): The Meanings of Knowledge of Self in "Post"-Apartheid South Africa

3. "Al-shaab yurid isqat al-nitham!": Sustaining Revolution in Palestine and Syria through Hip Hop

4. "The Revolution Will Be Indigenous": Collective Liberation, Healing, and Resistance to Settler Colonialism through Hip Hop

5. "Luchando Derechos" in Neoliberal Spain: Hip Hop Visions beyond Racism, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, and the Gentrification of El Raval, Barcelona

Part II: Hip Hop Organizing for Abolition, Reparations, Healing, and Growth

6. 1Hood: Hip Hop Art, Activism, and Media Creation in Pittsburgh

7. "Protection from Police Who Hinder Respiratory Airways": Hip Hop Theatre and Activism with Kuumba Lynx in Chicago

8. Ripples of Hope and Healing: Sustaining Community by Creating a Social Justice Arts Ecosystem

9. Beyond Trauma: Storytelling as Cultural Shift and Collective Healing

Part III: Hip Hop as Critical, Culturally Relevant, and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy

10. "Where the Beat Drops": Culturally Relevant and Culturally Sustaining Hip Hop Pedagogies

11. How Hip Hop Means: Retrospect for Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life

12. The Magic behind Science Genius: How Hip Hop Can Transform Science Education

13. Hip Hop, Whiteness, and Critical Pedagogies in the Context of Black Lives Matter

Part IV: Queer, Feminist, and Dis/ability Justice Hip Hop Futures

14. The Pleasure Principle: Articulating a Post-Hip Hop Feminist Politics of Pleasure

15. "When Can Black Disabled Folks Come Home?": The Krip-Hop Movement, Race, and Disability Justice

16. Queering Hip Hop Feminist Pedagogies in the New South

17. "These Are Not Sonnet Times": Building Toward Liberatory Futures.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Alim, H. Samy Freedom Moves

ISBN:

9780520382817

OCLC:

1350570524