Performing Identity/Performing Culture: Hip Hop as Text, Pedagogy, and Lived Practice (Intersections in Communications and Culture)
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (721 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1433105381 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 187 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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It also cements Dimitriadis' well-deserved reputation as one of the most original, insightful, and visionary scholars on the scene today.- (Marc Lamont Hill, Author of 'Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity')" . Greg Dimitriadis invites educators gently and brilliantly into dialogue across generations and genres we might have thought were unbridgeable; linking communities misguided by the fantasy that we are separate.- (Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology, Urban Education, and Wome
Originally published in 2001, this second edition is newly revised, expanded, and updated to reflect contemporary currents in hip hop culture and critical scholarship, as well as the epochal social, cultural, and economic shifts of the last decade. Performing Identity/Performing Culture: Hip Hop as Text, Pedagogy, and Lived Practice is the first book-length ethnography of young people and their uses of hip hop culture. His studies are broad-ranging: how two teenagers constructed notions of a Southern tradition through their use of Southern rap artists like Eightball & MJG and Three 6 Mafia; how young people constructed notions of history through viewing the film Panther, a film they connected to hip hop culture more broadly; and how young people dealt with the life and death of hip hop icon Tupac Shakur, constructing resurrection myths that still resonate and circulate today.. Drawing together historical work on hip hop and rap music as well as four years of research at a local community center, Greg Dimitriadis argues here that contemporary youth are fashioning notions of self and community outside of school in ways educators have largely ignored
He is author or editor (alone and with others) of ten books and over fifty articles and book chapters. . The Author: Greg Dimitriadis is Professor of Sociology of Education at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
"The Best" according to Thinker. This is the best book to date on hip-hop and education, bar none. Any text that follows "Performing Identity" owes a huge conceptual debt to Dimitriadis' fine work.