Hip Hop's Role in Teaching Communication Skills

Nick Sciullo

Hip Hop Law Blog contributor Nick Sciullo has a compelling piece up at Communication Currents entitled All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Hip-Hop: Hip Hop’s Role in Teaching Communication Skills.  In the post, Sciullo states:

"My argument is that hip-hop music is an increasingly effective tool for teaching communication. This is because many of today’s undergraduate and graduate students, as well as new professors in rhetoric, communication, and media studies grew up listening to hip-hop. Hip-hop music conveys myriad messages about love, life, law, ethics, and politics. Music has long played a central role in our lives, from the first album we bought with our own money to our prom songs, wedding songs, and the like. Many significant events and time periods in United States history, including the Civil Rights Movement, the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, become tied to music."

Check out the rest of the piece here.