Tag: hip hop
Microphone check − 5 ways that music education is changing
Clint Randles, University of South Florida
Music education – which traditionally has been heavily reliant on large ensembles and...
Deaf rappers who lay down rhymes in sign languages are changing...
Katelyn Best, West Virginia University
In April 2023, DJ Supalee hosted Supafest Reunion 2023 to celebrate entertainers and promoters...
Street scrolls: The beats, rhymes and spirituality of Latin hip-hop
Alejandro Nava, University of Arizona
As a first-generation college graduate and a Latino from a family that constantly scrambled...
From sit-ins in the 1960s to uprisings in the new millennium,...
Jelani M. Favors, North Carolina A&T State University
Of all the contributions for which Harry Belafonte will be remembered,...
Tupac’s ‘Dear Mama’ endures as rap artists detail complex relationships with...
A.D. Carson, University of Virginia
In hip-hop music, it sometimes seems as if songs to and about mothers are...
How hip-hop has enhanced American education over the past 50 years,...
Toby Jenkins, University of South Carolina
One of my most heartwarming memories from elementary school was the day my...
As the global musical phenomenon turns 50, a hip-hop professor explains...
A.D. Carson, University of Virginia
After I finished my Ph.D. in 2017, several newspaper reporters wrote about the job...
Rap artists have penned plenty of lyrics about US presidents –...
Stefan M. Bradley, Amherst College
Unusual Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S....
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
