Long as I Live - Accessible Transcript

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Jazzy intro fades in

[BL] Listen!

[MLH] Hip Hop habits of body and mind.

[BL] They’re drumming.
There’s a soundtrack
playing in their bodies.

[JDA] Forms of representation
and communication that are
electronic.

[BL] Hip Hop everywhere!
So you have to listen.

[CE] Hip Hop is the cultural artifact
and the art form that has been
transplanted from the Bronx, 
New York City,
to all over the planet. 
It has captured the minds, thoughts, ideas
of a whole new generation of people. 

[BL] Hip Hop sensibilities—
and that is a way of knowing, 
a way of being, 
and a way of thinking. 

[CE] It is the culture
of young people.

[BL] Soundtrack.

[BL] Their Hip Hop identities
are directly linked to schooling.

[JDA] Electronic.

[DK] They’re reading and writing
in complicated and beautiful ways. 

[BL] Listen!

[DK] Whenever you enter
into a classroom space
you’re entering into 
a contested space. 
It’s a political space.  

[BL] Knowledge as an embodied practice.

[MLH] Hip Hop habits of body and mind.

[BL] They’re drumming.
There’s a soundtrack
playing in their bodies.

[JDA] Forms of representation
and communication that are
electronic.

[BL] Hip Hop everywhere!          [JDA] electronic

[BL] So you have to listen.


[BL] Bettina Love
[CE] Chris Emdin
[DK] David Kirkland
[JDA] Jeff Duncan-Andrade
[MLH] Marc Lamont Hill
    

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