Hip-Hop Culture in College Students' Lives

<p>College campuses have become rich sites of hip-hop culture and knowledge production. Despite the attention that campus personnel and researchers have paid to student life, the field of higher education has often misunderstood the ways that hip-hop culture exists in college students’ lives. Based upon in-depth interviews, observations of underground hip-hop spaces, and the author’s own active roles in hop-hop communities, this book provides a rich portrait of how college students who create hip-hop—both male and female, and of multiple ethnicities—embody its principles and aesthetics on campuses across the United States. The book looks beyond rap music, school curricula, and urban adolescents to make the empirical argument that hip-hop has a deep cultural logic, habits of mind, and worldview components that students apply to teaching, learning, and living on campus.</p><p><em>Hip-Hop Culture in College Students’ Lives</em> provides critical insights for researchers and campus personnel working with college students, while pushing cultural observers to rethink the basic ways that people live hip-hop.</p> <ol> <li>Introduction: Hip-Hop, College Students, and Campus Life</li> <li>Entering the Cipher: Methods, Approaches, and Sketches of the Settings</li> <li>Welcome to the Underground: Hip-Hop Places and Spaces Around Campus</li> <li>"Hip-Hop is Like Breathing:" Aesthetics, Applications, and Conflicts on Campus</li> <li>"I Look at Hip-Hop as a Philosophy:" Edutainment, Sampling, and Classroom Practices</li> <li>Knowing What’s up and Learning What You’re not Supposed to: The Parameters of Critical Consciousness in Black, White, and Brown</li> <li>Lessons from the Underground: A Model for Understanding Hip-Hop in Students’ Lives<br> </li> </ol>