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A Pedagogy of Cultural Sustainability

YEGH3 (Edmonton Hip-Hop History) as a Decentralized Model for Hip-Hop’s Global Microhistories

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See You at the Crossroads: Hip Hop Scholarship at the Intersections

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Abstract

HipHop Kulture1and Hip Hop, the elements of its practice, are slowly democratizing aesthetics and aesthetics education.2 The democratization of aesthetics is significant because it introduces a critical cultural dimension into aesthetics where none before existed. Aesthetics is still, for the most part, marked by universality that postcolonial scholars like Walter Mignolo (2011) indentify as a hallmark of modernity.

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  1. California State University at East Bay, USA

    Brad Porfilio

  2. Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA

    Debangshu Roychoudhury

  3. Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA

    Lauren M. Gardner

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Macdonald, M.B. (2014). A Pedagogy of Cultural Sustainability. In: Porfilio, B., Roychoudhury, D., Gardner, L.M. (eds) See You at the Crossroads: Hip Hop Scholarship at the Intersections. Constructing Knowledge: Curriculum Studies in Action. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-674-5_2

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