Hip Hop Headphones: A Scholar’s Critical Playlist

Contents

• Introduction Critical Listening in Critical Times
• SECTION 1 DEFINITIONS 1Re: Definition 2Becoming and Being a Hip Hop Scholar
• SECTION 2 SPEECH AND BEATS 3From Ashy to Classy 4Best Never Heard: Playlist Pedagogy in the Hip Hop Classroom
• SECTION 3 SCHOLARLY REVIEWS 5Angry Black White Boyz 6A Review of Mansbach's Rage is Back 7Gangsta Scholarship: A Review of Nuthin' but a "G" Thang 8A Review of Beats, Rhymes, and Life (ATCQ Documentary) 9What Conservative Men Think . . . A Review of "What
• SECTION 4 RAP AROUND THE TABLE 10Race, Theory, and Gender in Hip Hop's Global Future
• SECTION 5 RAPADEMICS 11These Three Words 12Corner Boy Masculinity 13Rewriting the Remix 14Epilogue
• APPENDICES A Collection of Hip Hop Syllabi