Activity Support

Resources

These resources can be borrowed from Global Education Centre (NZ residents only). Contact us to find out more about borrowing resources.

The Invisible Table: Perspectives on Youth and Youth Work in New Zealand (2002)
Martin, Lloyd. Dunmore Press Ltd. NZ.
ISBN:086469409 Book

A good overview of Youth Work in Aotearoa. For those who work with youth who are 'at risk' in their neighbourhood, family, educational and cultural worlds in New Zealand. Outlines risk and resiliency factor in each of these worlds. Discusses participation of youth in peer groups and global youth sub-cultures. Includes practical examples and tools for youthworkers and teachers. Written from a New Zealand perspective it addresses Maori and Pacific Island youth in particular.

Flipping the Script: Critical Thinking in a Hip Hop World: (1995)
justthink.org USA 
Contains manual and DVD

Flipping the Script: A Hip-Hop Guide for the Classroom, is designed to help educators teach media literacy concepts and media production skills around the theme of Hip Hop culture and music. The curriculum includes a 30-page guidebook, with lesson plans and activities, a companion video and DVD, and an extensive website . The materials can be integrated into any classroom or after school programme, regardless of location or the educator's knowledge of Hip-Hop.

By dissecting current lyrics and videos, as well as looking at the broader historical evolution of Hip-Hop culture, students will develop a new perspective on the music and images that surround them. The curriculum also helps students look at media techniques, such as camera angles, lighting, and use of sound. Students examine messages depicted in various media representations of Hip Hop.

Makin' It : The Hip Hop Guide To Survival (2003)
Dejesus, Edward. Youth Development and Research Fund USA
ISBN: 0965913090 Book

A manual utilising young people's interests in Hip Hop as the basis for developing life skills. Covers a wide range of topics from career planning to community involvement.

Nga Tahi: know the links (1993)
Kia Kaha Productions Aotearoa NZ
DVD

Excellent documentary combining music and images with thoughts and comprehension: rappers, poets and thinkers share their views alongside 'Free Mumia' rallies, the Million Family March, the X1 International Poetry Festival in Medellin, Rastafarian Nyahbingi, Aboriginal reality, Hawaiian self-determination, Maori activism, French rap, Cuban street music, Brixton reasoning, first national resolution and more.

Stand & Deliver: political activism, leadership and Hip Hop culture (2004)
Bynoe, Yvonne. Soft Skull Press USA
ISBN: 1932360107 Book

Rather than get bogged down in sensational proclamations, apolitical assumptions or uninformed Hip Hop activist conjecture, the author meaningfully advances the discussion of the Hip Hop generation and its politics. This book carefully hones in on arguably the most important space for American youth today: the proving ground where Hip Hop, politics, and social change meet. This is a thoughtful, passionate, and wholly original book which analyses the relationship between Hip Hop culture and real-life political activism.

Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation (2002)   
Chang, Jeff. New York: St Martins Press

Websites

Educational

  • Music Mayday
    This site enables young people to connect with other young people globally. The project aims to foster understanding and to help young people develop their musical talents. 'Being young means converting your creative ideas together with others into concrete action in an appealing manner. Realising artistic dreams and doing what you are good at. The sky is the limit if you can appreciate each others qualities, using them in an optimal manner in order to obtain your purpose.'
  • Urban Youth Culture  
    The online Journal of Youth Culture offers concerned scholars the opportunity to contribute to our awareness and understanding. Diverse young people in the broad spectrum of urban environments face a rapidly changing world, one with increasingly fewer positive alternatives for those without the skills to compete in the Information Age. The overarching goal of this Journal is to provide a place where people who care about the future these young people face can share fresh ideas and insights.
  • Hip Hop Circuit
    Hip Hop Circuit illustrates the connectedness among Hip Hop, Popular Culture and Education. This website is designed to facilitate the promotion of understanding the histoical importance of Hip Hop, to provide interesting instructional strategies for teachers to use Hip Hop in the classroom, and to give members of a larger community a mechinism to expand their knowledge base of Hip Hop, Popular Culture and Education.
  • Flipping The Script
    Flipping the Script is a project of Just Think, a media education nonprofit organisation that has been working with youth and educators since 1995. Just Think teaches young people to understand, evaluate, and create media messages. They deliver vital programmes that foster critical thinking and creative media production, believing that the independent voices of youth can powerfully impact local and global communities.

Political

  • Conscioushiphop
    Articles with a distinctive individual Hip Hop flavour! Check out what is happening on the global Hip Hop scene.
  • Temple of Hip Hop
    The Temple of Hip Hop is a Hip Hop preservation society that seeks to define and teach the accumulated wisdom of Hip Hop to Hip Hoppas. The Temple's purpose is to promote, preserve, and protect Hip Hop as a strategy toward Health, Love, Awareness and Wealth for all who declare 'Hip Hop' as their lifestyle.

History

Global

  • African Hip Hop  
    The Africanhiphop site serves the goal of unifying everybody who's inspired by Hip Hop and by the cultures of Africa and of African origins. The info at Africanhiphop is provided mostly by the artists themselves, and edited by the Africanhiphop web team in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Uganda Hip Hop Foundation
    The Uganda Hip Hop foundation was founded by a group of Ugandan Hip Hop fans with the major task of grooming the Hip Hop culture in Uganda uniting all those inspired by Hip Hop in Uganda and around the region.
    The Hip Hop community in Uganda is mostly 18-25 year olds and the Hip Hop 'elders', mostly in their 30s, many of whom have been part of the culture for more than a decade. The Uganda Hip Hop Foundation is to explore this urban youth culture relate with this demographic and offer a window of opportunity for a new paradigm.
  • Tanzania
    Awesome crew of mostly Tanzanian Maasai Hip Hop artists with links to Aang Serian Peace Village, which has a specific aim of preserving indigenous wisdom and promoting indigenous education - http://www.aangserian.org.uk/
  • Central and South America
    Great resource site for looking at Latino, Chicano, Puerto Rican and Mexican Hip Hop.
  • Indigenous Female case study
    This site contains a useful interview with one of Canada's leading Female emcees. Contains biography and music samples.
  • Hawai'i  
    A website for Hawaiian rap group Sudden Rush, mentioned in this resource. It doesn't look like it's been updated for a couple of years, but does include pages with photos, a bio, and audio samples.Also check out: http://www.nahenahe.net/sudden_rush
  • Native American North America
    Website for Cherokee MC Litefoot's record label, Red Vinyl Records. At present, the whole site is not live, and you are automatically redirected to http://www.litefoot.com , a page that allows you to register interest with the site administrator to be notified when the Red Vinyl site goes live. Red Vinyl is one of, if not the, most active indigenous-run record labels in the U.S.

Female Artists

  • Break Girl  
    Dedicated Bgirl site.
  • Sisterz of Underground
    Sisterz of the Underground is a collective of female expressionists who are building a Hip Hop community in San Francisco and world wide. They represent all aspects of Hip Hop: emcees, dj's, breakers, and graffiti artists.
  • Ladies Luv Hip Hop  
    Started by a Melbourne group of women with a passion for hip-hop culture. Site consists of a space to get in touch with other lady hip-hop heads to network, get creative support and build up skills. They represent in emceeing, djing, graffing and bgirling and actively seek to engage emerging and established artists to pursue their hiphopluv.
  • True Essencia  
    A b-girl group from New York
  • Bgirl Style  
    In the male dominated world of hip hop culture, there were always females who could show and prove and hold their own amongst even their most hard core male counterparts, thus the term b-girl, or break girl evolved. This site is dedicated to all the true b-girls out there, who can roll with the best.
  • Bgyrl  
    Similar site to Bgirl Style.

Aotearoa New Zealand

Music

Local artist profiles and links to local Hip Hop music, and everything Aotearoa Hip Hip:

Graff

Bboy/girl

Turntablism

Timelines

Elements

  • Turntablism:definition
    Good, concise definition of turntabilism.
  • Turntablism in practice
    Comprehensive site looking at all aspects of the element.
  • Graff Styles
    Comprehensive site looking at history and development of writing styles.
  • Global Graffiti  
    Access to images of Graff Art from around the world. Lots of links to music and video samples as well.
  • artcrimes
    Global graffiti making points of individual countries and cities