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    Relational Practices of Listening in the Commons

    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Participatory media is a tool for individual and community education and development, allowing students to express and share their ideas and opinions, and to contribute to the production of the commons. Vital to the storytelling in these community spaces is listening—the listening of project facilitators to participants, of participants to each other, and of the public to the stories that emerge ... Read more

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  • Slam School

    Learning Through Conflict in the Hip-Hop and Spoken Word Classroom

    by Bronwen Low ...
    Mainstream rap's seductive blend of sexuality, violence, and bravado hardly seems the stuff of school curricula. And chances are good that the progressive and revolutionary "underground" hip-hop of artists such as The Roots or Mos Def is not on the playlists of most high-school students. That said, hip-hop culture remains a profound influence on contemporary urban youth culture and a growing ... Read more

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  • Butch Queens Up in Pumps

    Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit

    Series series Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance
    Butch Queens Up in Pumpsexamines Ballroom culture, in which inner-city LGBT individuals dress, dance, and vogue to compete for prizes and trophies. Participants are affiliated with a house, an alternative family structure typically named after haute couture designers and providing support to this diverse community. Marlon M. Bailey’s rich first-person performance ethnography of the Ballroom scene ... Read more

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  • The Beyonce Effect

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    Since her late-1990s debut as a member of the R&B trio Destiny's Child, Beyonce Knowles has garnered both praise and criticism. While some consider her an icon of female empowerment, others see her as detrimental to feminism and representing a negative image of women of color. Her music has a decidedly pop aesthetic, yet her power-house vocals and lyrics focused on issues like feminine ... Read more

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  • Speech Communities

    Series series Key Topics in Linguistic Anthropology
    What makes a speech community? How do they evolve? How are speech communities identified? Speech communities are central to our understanding of how language and interactions occur in societies around the world and in this book readers will find an overview of the main concepts and critical arguments surrounding how language and communication styles distinguish and identify groups. Speech ... Read more

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  • Prophets of the Hood

    Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop

    by Imani Perry ...
    At once the most lucrative, popular, and culturally oppositional musical force in the United States, hip hop demands the kind of interpretation Imani Perry provides here: criticism engaged with this vibrant musical form on its own terms. A scholar and a fan, Perry considers the art, politics, and culture of hip hop through an analysis of song lyrics, the words of the prophets of the hood. ... Read more

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    Series series Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives
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  • Hip-Hop and Philosophy

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  • Thug Life

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  • Why Music Matters

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