Below I’ve included a recording of our final WOBC radio show of the semester. We talked about how historically hip-hop has been used as a medium for protest in regards to environmental injustices. We try and examine how different communities have used rap as a powerful tool for environmental protest, ranging from urban to indigenous communities.
I really hope you enjoy our work while it took many hours to formulate the script and find songs. I believe the product is something special. It sheds light on a topic that many people never acknowledged. Hip-hop isn’t always about drugs, money, and violence. It can be used as a powerful platform to express concerns about any issue.
I hope after listening that you’ve gained an understanding about how people historically have been able to use hip-hop to shape the world around them. Hip-hop is an extremely powerful form of expression, and like we touched on in the show its more than just music.
Sources Cited:
Moore, Allan. “A Hermeneutics of Protest Music.” In The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music, edited by Jonathan C. Friedman, Routledge, 2013
Galloway, Kate. “The Aurality of Pipeline Politics.” Popular Music, vol. 39, no. 1, 2020, pp. 121-144. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026114301900059X
Hasek, Samantha, and April E. Lindala. “Hearing the Heartbeat: Environment Cultural Values in the Lyrics of Native Songwriters.” In Indigenous Pop: Native American Music from Jazz to Hip Hop, edited by Jeff Berglund et al., University of Arizona Press, 2016
