Knowledge of Self: Possibilities for Spoken Word Poetry, Hip Hop Pedagogy, and “Blackout Poetic Transcription” in Critical Qualitative Research

Keith, Anthony R.; Endsley, Crystal Leigh

doi:10.1163/25900110-00201004

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“…In terms of practical pedagogies, Keith and Endsley (2020) have recently published a "Hip-Hopography" methodological framework where they use "Blackout Poetic Transcription" as "an anti-racist and decolonizing research method" (57). They 'Black-out' (i.e.…”

Section: Spoken Word In American Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While my pedagogy is not centred on identity politics, it does intersect with Keith and Endsley’s on key points: a higher-education arts-based methodology that resorts to artist-scholars as facilitators and uses spoken word as a vehicle for promoting students’ knowledge production and embodied engagement with words.“The embodiment of the lyrics and the risk and rewards of live performance acknowledge and emphasize the relationship between the audience and the performer; the performer is also actively producing knowledge about their own experiences, lived and imagined. At a very foundational level, the spoken word artist and emcee are working to produce new knowledge about themselves and the world around them” (Keith and Endsley, 2020: 65).…”

Section: Written V Spoken Word: Postcritique and Affectmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…“The embodiment of the lyrics and the risk and rewards of live performance acknowledge and emphasize the relationship between the audience and the performer; the performer is also actively producing knowledge about their own experiences, lived and imagined. At a very foundational level, the spoken word artist and emcee are working to produce new knowledge about themselves and the world around them” (Keith and Endsley, 2020: 65).…”

Section: Written V Spoken Word: Postcritique and Affectmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Literary attachment and the American spoken-word song: An interarts-based reading pedagogy

Palmeirim

2023

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education

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Have we been teaching reading well? Close reading has been the signature practice in literary studies. More recently, however, postcritique has polemically revised this traditional mode of teaching reading. This essay proposes the initial framework for a novel arts-based pedagogy based on Spoken-Word Song, bridging critical literary interpretation and teacher-student co-created artistic performance. Spoken-Word Song is here cast as a privileged means for allowing university students to become intellectually and emotionally invested in poetry, following precepts of the affective turn in the humanities. Moving from theory to practice, this paper will contextualize Spoken-Word Song within three domains before describing the practical steps of my pedagogy: (1) its relevance to contemporary literary theory, (2) a brief overview of the American Spoken-Word Song and (3) Spoken Word pedagogies currently practiced in the American educational system.

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Section: Spoken Word In American Educationmentioning

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Palmeirim

2023

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“…Hip-Hop cannot be dismissed as merely a passing fad or as a youth movement soon to run its course; it must be taken seriously as a cultural, political, economic, and intellectual phenomenon (Alridge & Stewart, 2005). To be clear, Keith and Endsley (2020) noted that the relationship between rap music in Hip-Hop culture and spoken word poetry is “emceeing”; to “emcee” means to “move a crowd” with rhythmic spoken words, (usually) with a microphone. Thus, rap is simply poetry spoken rhythmically over a timed beat with bars that must rhyme.…”

Section: Spoken Word Poetry (Freedom Of Tongue)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Unapologetically Black Creative Educational Experiences in Higher Education: A Critical Review

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Review of Research in Education

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Black creative educational experiences (BCEEs) are participatory, performative cultural experiences created by or for students, centering Black artistic expression, aesthetics, and engagement. Using African-centered frameworks, we provide a methodological guide for examining BCEEs in education research, which includes centering Black “ways of knowing,” validating creative expressions cultivated by and for Black people, acknowledging the influence of Black creative expression on research and practice, considering researcher positionalities as observers and cultivators of Black creative expression, and viewing Black creative expression as knowledge production. We found BCEEs are democratizing educational experiences rooted in intellectual and expressive freedom (freedom of movement/voice/tongue), and community building. BCEEs should be centered in education research, particularly postsecondary education, and prioritized in institutional programming, curricula, and high-impact practices.

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“…Anthony Keith Jr. and Crystal Leigh Endsley explore the scope in Hip Hop Literature in their essay Knowledge of Self: Possibilities for Spoken Word Poetry, Hip Hop Pedagogy, and "Blackout Poetic Transcription" in Critical Qualitative Research. The essay builds on an argument necessary to understand the areas of study of this dissertation, wherein spoken word poetry functions as an anti-racist and decolonizing research method that disrupts mainstream, traditional pedagogies and methodologies (Keith 2020). This paper aims at analyzing spoken word poets through their manipulation of language, gestures and images to assert a discourse with a purpose of the destabilization of power through the voices raised by minorities.…”

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Decolonization through Spoken Word Poetry: A Postcolonial Analysis of Emi Mahmoud and Safia Elhillo’s poetry

Sohini¹

2022

IJELS

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Hip Hop has been a cultural wave creating and modifying the revolution started in the 1970s by Black people against systemic oppression, and while it manifests itself as a commodified narrativization against racism, sexism and other equally troublesome oppressive ideologies, it becomes a site for change through ethnographic performativity. Spoken Word poets have used this tool to bring marginal narratives to the center and challenge the heteropatriarchal lens, misogynoir and racist practices all around the world. Spoken word poetry has not been researched analytically or theoretically much previously, and even when it was, the research and statistics were limited to the technical aspects of performance. This paper deals with the idea of culture being a site for performance, and simultaneously performance being the action that precedes stereotypes and false representations of marginalized cultures throughout the global north. The spoken word poets use the stage as a liminal space for a multiplicity of cultures to thrive, and challenge the oppressive tools, including that of language, clothing, and voice used by mainstream cultures to oppress the said communities, and normalize their own traditions and morals. The paper reveals the performative tactics used by spoken word poets in order to deinstitutionalize systems of power, and establish a counter narrative of their own as a form of revolution.

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Knowledge of Self: Possibilities for Spoken Word Poetry, Hip Hop Pedagogy, and “Blackout Poetic Transcription” in Critical Qualitative Research

Cited by 9 publications

References 37 publications

Literary attachment and the American spoken-word song: An interarts-based reading pedagogy

Literary attachment and the American spoken-word song: An interarts-based reading pedagogy

Unapologetically Black Creative Educational Experiences in Higher Education: A Critical Review

Decolonization through Spoken Word Poetry: A Postcolonial Analysis of Emi Mahmoud and Safia Elhillo’s poetry

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