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This is from my NYU hip-hop class. Anthony Buonpane was a brilliant member of the class. This was his first assignment. Each student had to do an autoethnography sharing how they first learned about black music (and preferably not from recordings). What was their first experience watching, hearing and participating with real African Americans not just mediated images or sounds. Mining my teaching past for a TEDx Talk I am giving in Beijing in August for the WiserU summer program. One of my colleagues called what I do as a hip-hop professor NEW JACK PEDAGOGY. I loved that.
