Hip-Hop Genius 2.0: Remixing High School Education

Hip-hop can save our schools and society, as demonstrated by Hip Hop Genius, which offers a vision for how hip-hop's genius can lead to a fundamental remix of teaching, school design, and leadership. The 10-year anniversary edition includes new forewords, reflections, updates, and a call to action.

Format: Hardback
Length: 200 pages
Publication date: 15 February 2022
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Many educators are aware of the potential that hip-hop holds as a powerful tool for engaging students. However, the question remains: Can hip-hop save our schools and society? Hip Hop Genius presents a novel approach to hip-hop education that extends beyond the mere study of rap music as classroom material. Through captivating stories about the professional rapper who established the first hip-hop high school and the aspiring artists currently enrolled there, author Sam Seidel paints a vivid picture of how hip-hop's genius—the resourceful creativity and swagger that propelled it from a local phenomenon to a global force—can revolutionize the way we perceive teaching, school design, and leadership. This 10-year anniversary edition welcomes two new contributing authors, Tony Simmons and Michael Lipset, who bring firsthand experience managing the High School for Recording Arts. The new edition features fresh forewords from some of the most influential figures in education and hip-hop, reflections on ten more years of operating a hip-hop high school, updates to every chapter from the first edition, insights into how the school navigated the unprecedented challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent uprising in response to the murder of George Floyd, and an inspiring new concluding chapter that serves as a call to action for the field.

Weight: 446g
Dimension: 158 x 237 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781475864304
Edition number: 10th Anniversary Edition