The Re-Education Of Hip-Hop Culture with Dr. Joycelyn Wilson

Black History Year

PushBlack

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 July 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Today's History Story: Gil Scott-Heron What is hip hop, really? While hip hop music has become an international phenomenon and multi-billion dollar business, folks often forget that hip hop is bigger than music alone - it's a culture rich with history and lessons that could benefit our people more than ever today. Today, on Black History Year, we're remembering the true essence of hip hop, and doing so with the help of none other than Dr. Joycelyn Wilson, whose innovative STEAM programming is ensuring future generations benefit from the innate lessons within this coveted subculture. Dr. Joycelyn Wilson is an integrative curriculum designer, cultural studies educator, and faculty of Hip Hop Studies and Digital Media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. She founded the HipHop2020 Innovation Archive, an ed-tech start-up inspired by the intersection of teaching and learning in hip hop culture, and co-created Your Voice Is Power, a curriculum learning experience with modules that teach how music, computer science, and entrepreneurship can be tools to fight racism. To learn more about her work, visit www.drjoyce.net. For more info on the Four Four Beat Labs, visit www.fourfourbeatproject.org. Black History Year (BHY) is produced by PushBlack, the nation's largest non-profit Black media company. PushBlack exists to amplify the stories of Black history you didn't learn in school and explore pathways to liberation with people who are leading the way. You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at BlackHistoryYear.com — most people donate $10 a month, but every dollar makes a difference. If this episode moved you, share it with your people! Thanks for supporting the work. The BHY production team includes Tareq Alani, Brooke Brown, Tasha Taylor, Darren Wallace, and Lilly Workneh. Our producers are Cydney Smith and Len Webb for PushBlack, and Ronald Younger, who also edits the show. Black History Year’s executive producer is Julian Walker. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you love Push Blacks Black History Year, you'll love our newest podcast called Two Minute
0:10.9	Black History.
0:12.4	In only two minutes, you'll hear little-known stories about our people and reclaim the
0:17.7	knowledge we need to take action and advance our community.
0:23.0	To move towards the future, you've got to look to the past.
0:27.2	Learn the history you didn't get in school.
0:29.4	Tune in to Two Minute Black History, every Tuesday through Friday, right on the Black
0:34.6	History Year feed, and wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:38.6	DJ Cool Herk, Grandmaster Flash, KRS-1.
1:02.3	These are just a handful of innovators who pioneered hip-hop, opening the pathway
1:08.1	for a new Black subculture to flourish.
1:12.0	One where Black B-boys and DJs, MCs and graffiti artists could express themselves in a style
1:18.6	all their own.
1:21.1	From the Bronx to Atlanta, Memphis to Compton, hip-hop became a way of life, a form of resistance,
1:29.7	and is still alive today.
1:31.8	I'm Jay from Push Black, and you're listening to Black History Year.
1:37.4	Like much of Black culture, hip-hop has been co-opted and commercialized to the tune of
1:43.0	hundreds of billions of dollars, plenty of money to erase its historical tenets, its roots.
1:51.0	But folks like today's guests, Dr. Joyce Lynn Wilson, are making sure hip-hop won't stop,
1:57.5	and she's using steam that's science, technology, engineering, arts, and math to do so.
2:05.5	Joyce Lynn is an integrative curriculum designer, cultural studies educator, and faculty
2:11.2	of hip-hop studies in digital media in the school of literature, media, and communications
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