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Description of  Freedom Moves: Hip Hop Knowledges, Pedagogies, and Futures (California Series in Hip Hop Studies) (Volume 3)

0520382803 pdf This expansive collection sets the stage for the next generation of Hip Hop scholarship as we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the movements origins. Celebrating 50 years of Hip Hop cultural history, Freedom Moves travels across generations and beyond borders to understand Hip Hops transformative power as one of the most important arts movements of our time. This book gathers critically acclaimed scholars, artists, activists, and youth organizers in a wide-ranging exploration of Hip Hop as a musical movement, a powerful catalyst for activism, and a culture that offers us new ways of thinking and doing freedom. Rooting Hip Hop in Black freedom culture, this state-of-the-art collection presents a globally diverse group of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian American, Arab, European, North African, and South Asian artists, activists, and thinkers. The knowledges cultivated by Hip Hop and spoken word communities represent emerging ways of being in the world. Read more