![]() Gospel preachers refined the call and response as a means to educate and embed God’s word into people’s minds. When slaves were prevented from learning to read and write, they used coded drumbeats to communicate. It’s easy to forget that hip hop was born using creativity to improve circumstances. Hip hop, like poetry, encompasses everything about the human experience. Du Bois, and many more.Īn accompanying CD with 30 performances, many read by the author, makes this book an invaluable resource for music, poetry, and social studies classes. ![]() The collection starts with Eloise Greenfield and includes Gwendolyn Brooks, Gil Scott-Heron, Gary Soto, Langston Hughes, the Sugarhill Gang, Queen Latifah, Mos Def, Tupac Shakur, W.E.B. The introduction by Nikki Giovanni recounts the history of rhythm, rap, and hip hop, emphasizing stories of resistance and creativity during enslavement, including the funding cutbacks in the 1970s that led young people to invent their own sound in the absence of school bands and arts programs. ![]() This “read-and-play-it-to-me-again” collection of poetry with a beat entertains and educates all ages. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |