Music for Inclusion and Healing in Schools and Beyond Hip Hop, Techno, Grime, and More

Contemporary popular musics such as hip hop, techno, grime, EDM, drill, house and so on are among the most listened to in the world and yet, typically, they are barely covered in the music classroom if at all. This needs to be better reflected in educational, cultural, and social terms. In wider society, these musics are often treated as if they are the causative for the social dysfunction that, in fact, they merely reflect. At the same time, projects, programmes and practices of such contemporary popular musics can and have supported wellness and healing. Editors Pete Dale, Pamela Burnard, and Raphael Travis Jr. argue that there is huge potential here for enhanced inclusion.

Music for Inclusion and Healing in Schools and Beyond explains that when this music is included in the school curriculum or utilised in therapeutic contexts, huge leaps in healing and wellness can be achieved, as well as educational attainment and enjoyment in school contexts. This unique book seeks to account for those positive impacts, theorise them and help to extend and advance their impact. Contributing authors invite readers to re-think the possibilities and potentials for contemporary popular musics to gain the prestige that their actual popularity would suggest they should already command.

The various contributors of this book are from diverse ethnic, social and academic backgrounds, and this title includes several chapters from practitioners who have not written about the work they do before now. Readers will learn not only about the impact of projects that utilize such music but also ideas about how that impact can best be measured.

Pete Dale is Lecturer in Music Education at University of York. He is currently Principal Investigator for the AHRC-funded network CUMIN (Contemporary Urban Music for Inclusion Network).

Pamela Burnard is a Professor of Arts, Creativities and Educations at The University of Cambridge, in the Faculty of Education. Her solo-authored book 'Musical Creativities in Real-World Practice' (2012, OUP) promotes the multiple and inclusive authorings of multi-genred musical cultures across diverse communities.

Dr. Raphael Travis Jr., LCSW is a Professor at Texas State University in the School of Social Work. Dr. Travis is founder and Director of FlowStory, PLLC.

Foreword
Introduction
List of Contributors
Glossary

Part One: Curriculum and Music Education

1. Beat(s) For Blame: UK Drill Music, 'Race' and Criminal Injustice
Lambros Fatsis

2. DJ School UK and Beyond: My Journey As a DJ and DJ Educator
Jim Reiss

3. 'Bildung Life' - Holistic Ideals of Hip Hop Education
Johan Söderman

4. Technology and the Music Curriculum: Maximising Inclusion, Diversifying Options
Pete Dale

5. Musical Futures and Music Technology in Mainstream Music Education
Fran Hannan & Martin Ainscough

6. Rethinking the curriculum with Future DJs and Virtuoso
Austen Smart & Scott Smart

Part Two: Healing and Wellness

7. Power and Connection
Rawz

8. Intentional Uses of Music: Hip Hop, Healing, and Empowerment for Youth Self-Care and Community Well-Being
Raphael Travis, Alex Crooke, and Ian Levy

9. Becoming a Therapeutic Hip Hop Mentor
Kiran Manley

10. Global Inclusion and Healing through Therapeutic Beat Making
Elliot Gann and Alex Crooke

11. The Sound Pad Project: Co-Creation of Breakdancing, Dance Education, and an Inclusive Educational Technology
Nathan Geering and Simon Hayhoe

12. Using Social Media to Cultivate Connected Learning and Social and Emotional Support through a Hip Hop Based Education Programme
Jabari Evans

Part Three: Evaluation and Impact

13. The Hip Hopification of Education and its Evaluation
BREIS

14. Translating Evaluation and Research into Practice: What Matters for Socially Engaged Arts Programmes in and Beyond Schools?
Pamela Burnard

15. Untangling Earphones - Voice and Agency in Participatory Music Impact Evaluation
Douglas Lonie

16. Evaluating Young People's Spoken Word: Popular Music Projects
Beate Peter


17. Evaluating Well-being Outcomes of the Social Enterprise 'Noise Solution': Digital Approaches to Outcome Capture
Simon Glenister

18. Who is Heard and Who Gets to Belong in Hip Hop? The Counterspaces of Women and Gender Minority Rappers in Finland
Inka Rantakallio


Index