Full Description
Contemporary popular musics such as hip hop, techno, grime, EDM, drill, house and so on are among the most listened to in the world and yet, typically, they are barely covered in the music classroom if at all. This needs to be better reflected in educational, cultural, and social terms. In wider society, these musics are often treated as if they are the causative for the social dysfunction that, in fact, they merely reflect. At the same time, projects, programmes and practices of such contemporary popular musics can and have supported wellness and healing. Editors Pete Dale, Pamela Burnard, and Raphael Travis Jr. argue that there is huge potential here for enhanced inclusion.
Music for Inclusion and Healing in Schools and Beyond explains that when this music is included in the school curriculum or utilised in therapeutic contexts, huge leaps in healing and wellness can be achieved, as well as educational attainment and enjoyment in school contexts. This unique book seeks to account for those positive impacts, theorise them and help to extend and advance their impact. Contributing authors invite readers to re-think the possibilities and potentials for contemporary popular musics to gain the prestige that their actual popularity would suggest they should already command.
The various contributors of this book are from diverse ethnic, social and academic backgrounds, and this title includes several chapters from practitioners who have not written about the work they do before now. Readers will learn not only about the impact of projects that utilize such music but also ideas about how that impact can best be measured.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
List of Contributors
Glossary
Part One: Curriculum and Music Education
1. Beat(s) For Blame: UK Drill Music, 'Race' and Criminal Injustice
Lambros Fatsis
2. DJ School UK and Beyond: My Journey As a DJ and DJ Educator
Jim Reiss
3. 'Bildung Life' - Holistic Ideals of Hip Hop Education
Johan Söderman
4. Technology and the Music Curriculum: Maximising Inclusion, Diversifying Options
Pete Dale
5. Musical Futures and Music Technology in Mainstream Music Education
Fran Hannan & Martin Ainscough
6. Rethinking the curriculum with Future DJs and Virtuoso
Austen Smart & Scott Smart
Part Two: Healing and Wellness
7. Power and Connection
Rawz
8. Intentional Uses of Music: Hip Hop, Healing, and Empowerment for Youth Self-Care and Community Well-Being
Raphael Travis, Alex Crooke, and Ian Levy
9. Becoming a Therapeutic Hip Hop Mentor
Kiran Manley
10. Global Inclusion and Healing through Therapeutic Beat Making
Elliot Gann and Alex Crooke
11. The Sound Pad Project: Co-creation of Breakin, Dance Education, and an Inclusive Educational Technology
Nathan Geering and Simon Hayhoe
12. Using Social Media to Cultivate Connected Learning and Social and Emotional Support through a Hip Hop Based Education Programme
Jabari Evans
Part Three: Evaluation and Impact
13. The Hip Hopification of Education and its Evaluation
BREIS
14. Translating Evaluation and Research into Practice: What Matters for Socially Engaged Arts Programmes in and Beyond Schools?
Pamela Burnard
15. Untangling Earphones - Voice and Agency in Participatory Music Impact Evaluation
Douglas Lonie
16. Evaluating Young People's Spoken Word: Popular Music Projects
Beate Peter
17. Evaluating Well-being Outcomes of the Social Enterprise 'Noise Solution': Digital Approaches to Outcome Capture
Simon Glenister
18. Who is Heard and Who Gets to Belong in Hip Hop? The Counterspaces of Women and Gender Minority Rappers in Finland
Inka Rantakallio
Index
