The Representation of Gangsta Rap in Music Education Textbooks

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. “It’s how you flip it!” – Editorial Notes 9
4. Music Education and Hip-Hop 17
5. Hip-Hop and Music Education 23
6. “Music can really, really raise you” (Pete Rock) 51
7. “Urgency. […] It’s so much more than just interest or passion!” 71
8. Institutionalizing Beatmaking 81
9. Invisible Skillz. Thoughts on Hip-Hop as an Artistic, Creative Culture 103
10. The Archipelago as a Metaphor for the Creation of Collective Knowledge in Breaking 107
11. Breaking and the Island Life 133
12. Analyzing Flow and Deconstructing Childhood 137
13. Flow in the Music Classroom 159
14. Examining the Ideological Tension and Institutional Constraint of Implementing Hip-Hop-Based Music Education within the Formal Academic Space 163
15. The Representation of Gangsta Rap in Music Education Textbooks 179
16. Gangsta Rap in Everyday School Life 199
17. Characteristics of a Hip-Hop Pedagogy Based in Community Music Practices 203
18. What Germany’s Educational System Can Learn from Sweden’s Engagement with Hip-Hop Culture 221
19. Building Hip-Hop Music Educators 223
20. Hip-Hop Doesn’t Need School, School needs Hip-Hop 243
21. Hip-Hop Is More than Music 247
22. Making Dope Shit 251
23. Hip-Hop and Intersectional Music Education: Learning from Hip-Hop Feminisms 271
24. Eco Hip-Hop Education 293
25. Biographical Notes 311