50 Years of Hip Hop: A Talk with DJs on Media, Technology, & Writing in the 21st Century

Season 1, Episode 5: 50 Years of Hip Hop: A Talk with DJS on Media, Technology, & Writing in the 21st Century

Live from the Metro Campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University, recorded in November 2023

Featuring Dr. Todd Craig, Associate Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center. 

Hosted by Dr. Brian Mooney, Assistant Professor of Education, FDU. Executive Produced by Allen Debren, Director of Instructional Technology Development.

Listen to the Podcast:

Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fdu-edcast/id1524223300 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4EhdUd1xcmrIWRobmO29UJ

FDU School of Education:

Peter Sammartino School of Education  - https://www.fdu.edu/academics/colleges-schools/education/ Follow us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fdu_soe/

About Dr. Todd Craig:

Website - https://www.drtoddcraig.com

Dr. Craig's Book:

"K for the Way:" DJ Rhetoric and Literacy for 21st Century Writing Studies. Utah State University Press (2023). https://upcolorado.com/utah-state-university-press/item/6420-k-for-the-way

References & Resources:

1:14 - Craig, T. (2023). “K for the way:” DJ rhetoric and literacy for 21st Century writing studies. Utah State University Press. 

7:17 - Chang, J. (2005). Can’t stop, won’t stop: A history of the hip hop generation. St. Martin’s Press.

20:55 - Morrell, E., & Duncan-Andrade, J. (2002). Promoting academic literacy with urban youth through engaging hip hop culture. English Journal, 91(6), 88–92. https://doi.org/ 10.2307/821822

21:51 - Smitherman, G. (1977). Talkin and testifyin: The language of black America. Houghton Mifflin.

21:56 - Lyiscott, J. (2019). Black appetite, white food: Issues of race, voice, and justice within and beyond the classroom. Routledge. 

21:57 - Baker-Bell, A. (2020). Linguistic justice: Black language, literacy, identity, and pedagogy. Routledge.

22:23 - Freire, P. (1970). Pedagogy of the oppressed. Continuum.

35:03 - Denise, DJ Lynnée. The afterlife of Aretha Franklin’s ‘rock steady’: A case study in DJ scholarship.” Black Scholar 49.3 (2019): 62–72. Print.

39:40 - Baker, H. A. (1995). Black studies, rap, and the academy. University of Chicago Press. 

42:28 - Alim, H. S., Chang, J., & Wong, C. P. (2023). Freedom moves: Hip Hop knowledges, pedagogies, and futures. University of California Press.

49:13 - Spady, J. (2013). Mapping and re-membering Hip Hop history, hiphopography, and African diasporic history. Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 126–157.

50:40 - Durkheim, E. (1915). The elementary forms of the religious life: A study in religious sociology. Allen & Unwin/Macmillan. 

51:14 - Hutson, S. R. (1999). Technoshamanism: Spiritual healing in the rave subculture. Popular Music and Society, 23(3), 53–77. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007769908591745