Hip-Hop(E)

This collection of seventeen articles on music, youth culture, and education examines global hip hop culture in a variety of academic contexts and explores the concept of critical pedagogy in relation to the genre. The essays are divided into sections covering hip hop as a nexus of revolutionary critique and social transformation and hip hop based education. Individual essays address topics such as Arab American hip hop as cultural action for freedom, local hip hop and the production of grassroots democratic change, spoken word as "literocratic" praxis, and critical education using hip hop modes of knowledge distribution. Contributors are academics in cultural, media, and Africana studies from a variety of universities as well as performers and other professionals working within the hip hop scene. Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Brad J. Porfilio is Associate Professor of Education at Lewis University. He received his Ph.D. in sociology of education at the University of Buffalo. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, edited volumes, and conference papers on the topics of urban education, youth culture, neoliberalism and schooling, transformative education, teacher education, gender and technology, and cultural studies.
Michael J. Viola is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (Urban Schooling) at the University of California, Los Angeles. His work has been published in the peer-reviewed journals Amerasia, Socialism and Democracy, and the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies. He is also a contributor to the anthology titled Peter McLaren, Education, and the Struggle for Liberation and is co-author (with Kent Wong) of Miguel Contreras: Legacy of a Labor Leader.