Message in the Music Hip Hop, History, and Pedagogy

Bringing together wide-ranging, critical, and detailed essays that examine hip hop as one of the most influential cultural phenomena of the past half-century, historians, social scientists, literary critics, and educators examine the current state of hip hop, investigate its historical and philosophical linkages to previous African-American social and cultural movements, and explore the ways it may be employed as an emancipatory pedagogy for youth. 378 pp.