Tag Archives: Martha Diaz

HW Pick: From Beat Street to These Streets, Hip Hop Then and Now

As hip hop’s dance practitioners were entering public consciousness after appearances in Flashdance and Breakin’, in the summer of 1984 Beat Street became the first big-budget film to connect b-boying, djing, rap and graffiti together as hip hop cultureContinue reading

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Hip Hop Pedagogy, Performance and Culture in the Classroom and Beyond

Produced by the UW-Madison’s Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives and the Office of Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate in collaboration with the Hip-Hop Education Center

In Partnership with New York University’s Metropolitan Center for Urban Education and  Teachers College, Columbia University’s Institute for Urban and Minority Education

Seminal scholars and leaders in the growing field of Hip-Hop studies focus their attention on how Hip-Hop culture, culturally relevant pedagogy and youth participatory action research can serve as innovative approaches to help bridge the achievement gap in our nation’s public schools through the creation of new strategies and curricula to reach students who have been historically under-served by traditional schooling.  Continue reading