TY - BOOK ID - 145610294 TI - Beats, rhymes, and classroom life : hip-hop pedagogy and the politics of identity AU - Hill, Marc Lamont AU - Ladson-Billings, Gloria PY - 2009 SN - 9780807749609 PB - New York ; London : Teachers College Press, DB - UniCat KW - Education, Urban KW - Hip-hop KW - Literature KW - Sociological aspects. KW - Influence. KW - Study and teaching (Secondary) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145610294 AB - For over a decade, educators have looked to capitalize on the appeal of hip-hop culture, sampling its language, techniques, and styles as a way of reaching out to students. But beyond a fashionable hipness, what does hip-hop have to offer our schools? In this revelatory new book, Marc Lamont Hill shows how a serious engagement with hip-hop culture can affect classroom life in extraordinary ways. Based on his experience teaching a hip-hop-centered English literature course in a Philadelphia high school, and drawing from a range of theories on youth culture, identity, and educational processes, Hill offers a compelling case for the power of hip-hop in the classroom. In addition to driving up attendance and test performance, Hill shows how hip-hop-based educational settings enable students and teachers to renegotiate their classroom identities in complex, contradictory, and often unpredictable ways. ER -