Toward hip-hop pedagogies for music education. (May 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kruse, Adam J.
• Is Part Of: International journal of music education. Volume 34:Number 2(2016:May)
• Page Start: 247
• Page End: 260
• Publication Date: 2016-05
• Subjects: hip-hop -- music education -- pedagogy -- popular music; Music -- Instruction and study -- Periodicals; 780.7
• DOI: 10.1177/0255761414550535
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0255-7614

Abstract

Music education scholarship in the areas of popular, vernacular, and participatory musicianship has grown in the past decades; however, music education research concerned specifically with hip-hop has been relatively scarce. Because hip-hop music can differ tremendously from the traditional western genres with which many music educators are most familiar, a great need for research in this area exists. In this article, I summarize general education scholarship related to hip-hop and offer implications toward hip-hop pedagogies for music education. I employ Hill's (2009) classifications of hip-hop pedagogy ( Pedagogies with hip-hop, Pedagogies about hip-hop, and Pedagogies of hip-hop ) as a structure to better understand previous literature and to provide a descriptive framework for potential applications of hip-hop pedagogies to music education settings. I describe Hill's categories using the labels of Hip-hop as a bridge, Hip-hop as a lens, and Hip-hop as practice .