Slam School: Learning Through Conflict in the Hip-Hop and Spoken Word Classroom by Low, Bronwen
Slam School: Learning Through Conflict in the Hip-Hop and Spoken Word Classroom by Low, Bronwen

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

Mainstream rap's seductive blend of sexuality, violence, and bravado hardly seems the stuff of school curricula. And...
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Slam School: Learning Through Conflict in the Hip-Hop and Spoken Word Classroom by Low, Bronwen

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

BD$42.12
Slam School: Learning Through Conflict in the Hip-Hop and Spoken Word Classroom by Low, Bronwen

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

BD$42.12
Author: Bronwen Low
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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 number of teachers are developing strategies for integrating it into their classrooms. While most of these are hip-hop generation members who cannot imagine leaving the culture at the door, this book tells the story of a white teacher who stepped outside his comfort zone into the rich and messy realm of student popular investments and abilities.

Slam School takes the reader into the heart of a poetry course in an urban high school to make the case for critical hip-hop pedagogies. Pairing rap music with its less controversial cousins, spoken word and slam poetry, this course honored and extended student interests. It also confronted the barriers of race, class, gender, and generation that can separate white teachers from classrooms of predominantly black and Latino students and students from each other.

Bronwen Low builds a surprising argument: the very reasons teachers might resist the introduction of hip-hop into the planned curriculum are what make hip-hop so pedagogically vital. Class discussions on topics such as what one can and cannot say in the school auditorium or who can use the N-word raised pressing and difficult questions about language, culture and identity. As she reveals, an innovative, student-centered pedagogy based on spoken word curriculum that is willing to tolerate conflict, as well as ambivalence, has the potential to air tensions and lead to new insights and understandings for both teachers and students.

Author: Bronwen Low
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 03/22/2011
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780804763660


Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2011
Reference and Research Bk News 06/01/2011 pg. 157

About the Author
Bronwen E. Low is Associate Professor of Education at McGill University. She is the coauthor of Reading Youth Writing: "New" Literacies, Cultural Studies and Education (2008), with Michael Hoechsmann.
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