Holiday Hip Hop Book Shopping + 2025 Conferences
Plus, Hip Hop news and views that aren't about dumb sh*t
👋 Couple quickies before we get into ‘the world’s most informative Hip Hop newsletter,’ today packed with innovative, inspiring and insightful news items, some 📚 holiday book shopping ideas for the Hip Hop intellectual in your life, plus info on upcoming Hip Hop conferences and other interdisciplinary Hip Hop events.
(Oh, and if you’re new here, there’s also a Hip Hop Can Save America! podcast and a weekly livestream video show!)
⌚ What had happened was…
🙏 Just a quick thanks to the Save The Kids From Incarceration nonprofit who hosted their 9th Annual International Hip Hop Studies Conference. I was honored to present my talk, Preserving and Empowering Hip Hop Culture: A Multi-Point Plan for a Sustainable Future, and greatly enjoyed the other presentations. Check out their org if you get a chance.
🎙️ I was recently a guest on a podcast, The EdTech Bytes Podcast: Hip Hop x STEM = Engagement w/ Manny Faces, recorded at the Georgia EdTech Conference where I was presenting another one of my talks: (Hip Hop x STEM) = Engagement! Using Music and Culture to Enhance K-12 STEM & Technology Curricula. Give it a listen or give it a view!
🗣️ For more about my speaking/keynoting, visit my site: www.mannyfaces.com - I’m now booking for 2025!!
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Now, on the the meat and plátanos!
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📰 HIP HOP NEWS THAT ISN’T ABOUT DUMB SH*T
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🏫 Reclaiming Hip-Hop’s Power: A Student Review of the Annual Hip-Hop Studies Conference at Howard University
Related: HU profs Dr. Clark & Dr. Caruth on Hip Hop Can Save America
⚖️ What exactly is driving the conspiracy theories about Sean 'Diddy' Combs?
❤️🩹 Right to Rap: How Hip Hop Helps Students Heal From Trauma
Related: J.C. Hall on Hip Hop Can Save America!
🕶️ Run-DMC Proved Hip-Hop Was an Art Form
✨ GloRilla, once a choir girl, is one of hip-hop’s most promising voices
🌇 How Detroit's hip-hop scene is impacting local economy for the better
🏙️ Danny Cortes Preserves Hip-Hop Through Miniatures
🏫 Rhyme and revolution: History of Hip Hop course examines the genre’s influence on global culture
🕊️ The Möbius Strip of Hip-Hop (Michael McKinney pays tribute to the late Ka)
🏛️ Proposed Memphis hip-hop museum could bring thousands of visitors, backers say
🕺🏾 Review: Resistance and Struggle in a Dance of Private Rites
📺 ATL Hip Hop Historian Nuface Collects Memorabilia
📺 Here’s a YouTube playlist interviewing pioneers of Hawaiʻi Hip Hop
🙃 For all those folks who were complaining that there weren’t enough American/Black/brown/real breakers in the 2024 Olympics, don’t look now, but The Netherlands just swept the 2024 Red Bull RC One Finals. Which they might think is messed up I guess, but also, did any of them watch the Red Bull RC One Finals or support local breaking events or like, do anything having to do with breaking since they had such vehement opinions last summer? Probably not. See how that works?
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📚 HOLIDAY HIP HOP BOOK SHOPPING GUIDE
I know the season is already seasoning, so buying these now might be a little late for holiday gift-giving, but better late than never. And I’m not going to list them all here, but instead, I’m going to point you to our updated Bookshop.org shop! Bookshop.org helps support local and independent bookshops, and I have a page there which I’m constantly updating with new Hip Hop book releases that cater to a bit more of the intellectual side of things.
Some recent titles include: The Future of Youth Violence Prevention: A Mixtape for Practice, Policy, and Research; It's How You Flip It: Multiple Perspectives on Hip-Hop and Music Education; Hip-Hop Civics: Connected Learning in the Rap Classroom; Hip-Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production; In the Time of Sky-Rhyming: How Hip Hop Resonated in Brown Los Angeles…
You get the picture. Visit the shop today and keep checking back for new additions. (I’ll be adding more classic titles, but free free to reply and suggest something you want me to include there.)
💫 For gifting-a-non-Hip-Hop-book idea, check out my man Bobby McD’s collection of brilliant short stories, The Occulting Light! He’s from Ireland so he’ll spell words like odour and honoured, but they’re good stories anyway 😁
📅 UPCOMING DOPE & INTERDISCIPLINARY HIP HOP EVENTS
Jan. 11, 2025 [D.C.]: Club Quarantine Live with D-Nice at The Kennedy Center
Jan. 15, 2025: CALL FOR PROPOSALS DUE for the 2025 Hip Hop Literacies Conference at The Ohio State University
Mar. 21-23 [Columbus, OH] The 2025 Hip Hop Literacies Conference at The Ohio State University
April, 2025 [D.C.]: Words, Beats & Life Festival (More info to come.)
April 18-19, 2025 [Hartford, CT]: The Trinity International Hip Hop Festival
June, 2025 [NYC]: #HipHopEd Conference (Email hiphoped@gmail.com to be added to the update list)
November, 2025 [ D.C.]: Third Annual Hip Hop Studies Conference at Howard University (More info to come.)