Tag: hip hop
From breakbeats to the dance floor: How hip-hop and house revolutionized...
Joycelyn Wilson, Georgia Institute of Technology
There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical...
Why Quincy Jones should be prominently featured in US music education...
Philip Ewell, Hunter College
Quincy Jones, who died on Nov. 3, 2024, at the age of 91, was one...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
Touch can comfort and heal, but also harm − a psychologist...
Brian N. Chin, Trinity College
A hug from a friend. A squeeze of the hand. A steady arm around...
