As hip-hop begins to take prominence in musical academia, one assistant professor in the School of Music, Jason Rawls, is determined to immerse students in the popular music form. Currently teaching ...
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Hip Hop hype or hope

“Let’s play!” For most of us, that short sentence, invitation even, would be music to our ears but the question may be this: what sort of music is it to our ears?Music can be sorrowful, inspirational, ...
A service-learning course shows hip hop songwriting can help kids with vocabulary – as well as trying to make sense of the world Ask Deja Simms, a sixth-grade English Language Arts teacher at Durham’s ...