Hip Hop’s Organic Pedagogues
Teaching, Learning, and Organizing in Dakar and New York - Between Non-Profits and Social Movements
by Saman Hamdi
Date of Examination:2023-08-17
Date of issue:2024-06-20
Advisor:Prof. Dr. Moritz Ege
Referee:Prof. Dr. Moritz Ege
Referee:Prof. Dr. Michael Rappe
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The book explores Hip Hop activism in social work, education, and political movements in New York and Dakar. Based on 40 interviews, and ethnographic fieldwork, the author identifies three types of Hip Hop activists: Organic intellectuals (movement organizers), cultural organizers (event planners), and organic pedagogues (teachers). The latter are practitioners (DJs, rappers, dancers, and style writers) who use Hip Hop practices to transform classrooms in solidarity with its Afro-diasporic roots. Their teaching methods, social-justice-based curricula, and mentoring relationships are analyzed to find out how formalized Hip Hop teaching takes place. The book also looks at learning in scenes and how Hip Hop’s communities of practice are structured e.g. via event formats. The author analyzes four types of Hip Hop non-profits, the field, and the possibilities and pitfalls of Hip Hop’s ‘Ngoization’. Finally, Senegal’s Y'en a Marre movement serves as a case study, to see whether Hip Hop can drive social change through movement organizing, and mobilizing.
Keywords: Hip Hop Culture; Hip Hop Pedagogy; Education; Social Justice; Social Movements; Activism; Rap; Breaking; DJing; Graffiti; Style Writing; Breakdance; Social Work; Community Organizing; Music; Protest; Ngoization; Philanthropy; Critical Pedagogy; Freire; Gramsci; Cultural Anthropology; Ethnography; Participant Observation; Kulturanthropologie; Europäische Ethnologie