Toward hip hop pedagogies for music education
Music education scholarship in the areas of popular, vernacular, and participatory musicianship has grown in the past decades; however, music education research concerned specifically with hip hop has been relatively scarce. Because hip hop music can differ tremendously from the traditional western genres with which many music educators are most familiar, a great need for research in this area exists. In this article, I summarize general education scholarship related to hip hop and offer implications toward hip hop pedagogies for music education. I employ Hill's (2009) classifications of hip hop pedagogy (Pedagogies with hip hop, Pedagogies about hip hop, and Pedagogies of hip hop) as a structure to better understand previous literature and to provide a descriptive framework for potential applications of hip hop pedagogies to music education settings. I describe Hill's categories using the labels of Hip hop as a bridge, Hip hop as a lens, and Hip hop as practice.