“Studying rap music ecocritically can offer a counterpoint to foundational views of environmental literature and raise important questions about cultivating a sense of place that both resonate with and challenge such canonical place-based figures as Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold, who usually dominate environmental syllabi, literature conference panels, and scholarly publications..” –Debra J. Rosethal, “Hood in the Woods”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4o8TeqKhgY
“With as keen an observer’s eye as that of Barry Lopez on the snowscape in Arctic Dreams, Edward Abbey on heat and sand in Desert Solitaire, Henry David Thoreau on Walden pond, Sarah Orne Jewett on the lush Maine landscape, or other great naturalist writers, Grandmaster Flash observes the indigenous species of his ecosystem: ‘‘Crazy lady, living in a bag/Eating outta garbage pails,’’ and he enumerates the ‘‘Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers/Pickpockets, peddlers, even panhandlers’’ and the ‘‘Thugs, pimps, and pushers and the big money makers.’’ –Debra J. Rosenthal, “Hood in the Woods”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeTnog5RRQo
“Black Star shows just as much artistry as Grandmaster Flash in its rootedness to a sense of place. ‘Respiration’ portrays New York City as alive…Rappers Mos Def and Talib Kweli feel dispossessed as real estate investors want to raze the ghetto to establish more lucrative condominiums: ‘‘Outta the city, they want us gone/Tearin down the ’jects creating plush homes.’’–Debra J. Rosenthal, “Hood in the Woods”
Journal:
Why did you choose the song you brought in? How could it be considered environmental?
In Groups:
-Share songs, keep a list of everyone’s songs, noting under each what could be considered “environmental” about that song.
-Have at least one song/environmental explanation prepared to share with the entire class.
Homework:
“With as keen an observer’s eye as that of Barry Lopez on the snowscape in Arctic Dreams, Edward Abbey on heat and sand in Desert Solitaire, Henry David Thoreau on Walden pond, Sarah Orne Jewett on the lush Maine landscape, or other great naturalist writers, Grandmaster Flash observes the indigenous species of his ecosystem: ‘‘Crazy lady, living in a bag/Eating outta garbage pails,’’ and he enumerates the ‘‘Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers/Pickpockets, peddlers, even panhandlers’’ and the ‘‘Thugs, pimps, and pushers and the big money makers.’’ –Debra J. Rosenthal, “Hood in the Woods”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeTnog5RRQo“Black Star shows just as much artistry as Grandmaster Flash in its rootedness to a sense of place. ‘Respiration’ portrays New York City as alive…Rappers Mos Def and Talib Kweli feel dispossessed as real estate investors want to raze the ghetto to establish more lucrative condominiums: ‘‘Outta the city, they want us gone/Tearin down the ’jects creating plush homes.’’–Debra J. Rosenthal, “Hood in the Woods”
Journal:
Why did you choose the song you brought in? How could it be considered environmental?
In Groups:
-Share songs, keep a list of everyone’s songs, noting under each what could be considered “environmental” about that song.
-Have at least one song/environmental explanation prepared to share with the entire class.
Homework:
-“Millions Join Earth Day Observances Across the Nation,” by Josephy
Lelyveld p. 484
Lelyveld p. 484
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