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Global Conference on Hip Hop Education2021 Annual Meeting Theme
Exploring Hip Hop as a Source of Empowerment in our Global Communities
The 2021 annual meeting call for proposals will be opened on February 21st, 2020; the deadline for submissions is May 30th, 2020, 11:59 p.m. (PST)
Chair (GCHHE)/President (HHAAE):
Dr. Tasha Iglesias
hosted by
ASA College
New York, NY
February 3-9, 2021
The Hip Hop Association of Advancement and Education (HHAAE) connects, and supports Hip Hop scholars, teachers, practitioners and artists who engage in Hip Hop to empower their communities. Petchauer (2014) has explained that “most frequently and for good reason, scholars have connected Hip Hop to culturally relevant, asset-based, and critical pedagogies” (p. 3). Many scholars have moved beyond analyzing rap lyrics to engaging in Hip Hop Pedagogy. In doing so, they are highlighting the culture’s elements including MCing, DJing, Graffiti Writing and Bboying/Bgirling. Hip Hop Pedagogy has been identified as an educational tool that can both engage and support students (Petchauer, 2009; Söderman, & Sernhede, 2016; Sulé, 2016). Research on Hip Hop as an effective pedagogy has increased in the last decade (Söderman & Sernhede, 2016) and Hip Hop in the classroom is an “innovative, educationally sound [approach] that considers and develops the cultural capital students bring to the classroom, [and makes] education relevant and purposeful” (Paul, 2000, p. 247).
HHAAE, however, has identified that there are multiple inaccuracies in how Hip Hop histories have been documented, and how Hip Hop Culture has been taught in dance classes, dance studios and other non-profit organizations with various agendas. HHAAE strives for improved communication and partnerships between educators using hip hop pedagogy and the pioneers and practitioners of Hip Hop.
The objective of this conference is to bring together scholars, artists, advocates and practitioners who engage in Hip Hop to both define Hip Hop Pedagogy, and explore how Hip Hop Pedagogy can be used to empower our global community.
Questions/Comments/Inquiries: [email protected]
Track Information
Track 1: Literacy and Language Development through Hip Hop
In this track, we wish to explore the notion of intermodalingualism, which is a process-based, rather than a content-focused, approach to the use of Hip Hop in language learning spaces and beyond. Given the vast array of cultural, linguistic, and academic resources available to members of Hip Hop communities of practice, this track will invite those who currently employ these practices and resources to expand the scope of that which has been made available in order to achieve better outcomes in language learning spaces. With a focus on closing noted achievement gaps affecting those within traditionally-underrepresented groups -- such as those who are members of the Hip Hop community -- this track seeks to feature ways in which resources and practices most salient within Hip Hop spaces can be understood, if not operationalized, within language learning classrooms. In doing so, conference presenters and participants will develop a more nuanced articulation of principles, methods, practices, and tools that will more validly build upon student schema, create better learning spaces, and advocate for cultural sustainability. Such is to be operationalized at the level of learner, practitioner, educational organization, and/or cultural institution.
Program Co-chairs: Derek Taylor (ASA), Christian Perticone (ASA)
Track 2: Hip Hop Cultural Appreciation, Pedagogy and Praxis
This track examines how Hip Hop is able to empower, educate, and uplift individuals, organizations, and communities, and how to best ensure proper documentation, amplification, and representation of the beneficial aspects of the culture and its associated elements (e.g. B-girling/B-boying, Graffiti, Emceeing (MC), Deejaying (DJ) and Knowledge).
Program Co-chairs: Elliot Gann (Today’s Future Sound), Manny Faces (The Center for Hip-Hop Advocacy), Kuttin Kandi (Hip Hop Bruha), Emile Jansen (Black Noise/Heal the Hood Project), Imani Kai Johnson (University of California, Riverside), Mary Fogarty Woehrel (York University, Canada), Mikal Amin Lee (Fresh Roots Music/Brooklyn Academy of Music), Mike Pellz (Dynamic Rockers)
Track 3: Empowering Marginalized Communities
This track will engage participants in discourse about hip-hop’s place in the larger social context as a tool of liberation and social analysis. Topics will include hip-hop’s presence within the sociopolitical and economic landscapes; hip-hop based interpretations/navigation's of gender, sexuality, and feminism; and the culture’s positioning within urban education as a modality of revolution.
Program Co-chairs: Ras Benard Benzima (Youth Leadership 8, Uganda), Mark Katz (Next Level), Rod Wallace (The Plugin), Quan Neloms (Lyricist Society), Marsha Nicole, Tasha Iglesias (HHAAE)
Track 4: Entrepreneurship and Leadership in Hip Hop
This track will explore how hip hop has been a viable and valuable tool in leveraging economic opportunity for marginalized and oppressed people and has given them access to mainstream media platforms to tell, sell and own their stories and intellectual properties. Topics will include streams of income available based on intellectual property, conception of various narratives around issues affecting the hip hop community and how hip hop culture takes control of them and the movement within the culture to own intellectual properties.
Program Co-chairs: Cheryl Armour Frye (Origin), MavOne de Southwest Detroit (MCSDA), Quilan Cue Arnold, Lamont Holden (The LetterL Beats), BBoyHouse(FSC,Asu, Next Level), Sean Robertson-Palmer (York University)
Track 5: Musicality in Hip Hop
This track will explore how the process of music-making has changed as Hip Hop has grown. We will have a special discussion on the way Public Enemy’s best work changed the landscape of sample-based music production. We are open to submissions that discuss everything related to Hip Hop production and songwriting from an instrumental perspective. What is revolutionary about the music itself? Not the lyrics, the actual notes of the music.
Program Co-chairs: Christopher “DJ Green Arrow” Defendorf, Johnny Juice
Track 6: Hip Hop, Education and Sport
This track will explore connections between education, the Hip Hop culture, and sport, exploring their political significance and social influence. In addition, we are open to submissions that look at the multiple ways in which education and sport are inextricably linked to Hip Hop (e.g. artists, athletes and fans). Lastly, consideration will be given to proposals that examine the interconnected relationships between sport and Hip Hop, including topics centered on race, gender, inequality, politics, education, economics, and more within institutional settings (e.g., in colleges/universities and communities).
Program Co-chairs: Keith Harrison (Scholar Baller, University of Central Florida), Pyar Seth (Trinity University), BBoyHouse(FSC, Asu, Next Level)
REFERENCES
Barrett, C. (2013). (Re)imagining TESOL through critical hip hop literacy, International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 4(3), 100-115.
Paul, D. (2000). Rap and orality: Critical media literacy, pedagogy, and cultural synchronization. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 44(3), 246-252.
Petchauer, E. (2009). Framing and reviewing hip-hop educational research. Review of
Educational Research, 79(2), 946-978. doi: 10.3102/0034654308330967
Petchauer, E. (2014). Back to the lab with Hip-Hop education: An introduction. Urban Education, 50(1), 3-6. doi: 10.1177/0042085914563186
Söderman, J., & Sernhede, O. (2016). Hip-Hop--What's in it for the academy? Self-
understanding, pedagogy and aesthetical learning processes in everyday
cultural praxis. Music Education Research, 18(2), 142-155. doi: 10.1080/1461
3808.2015.1049257
Sulé, V. (2016). Hip-Hop is the healer: Sense of belonging and diversity among hip-hop
collegians. Journal of College Student Development, 57(2), 181-196. doi: 10.1353/csd.2016.0022
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
ASA College, 1293 Broadway, New York, NY 10001, Long Island City, United States