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Samples from Rice’s “Hip Hop Pedagogy”

Samples from Jeff Rice’s “The 1963 Hip-Hop Machine: Hip-Hop Pedagogy As Composition” What I want to add to Baker’s pedagogy, however, is an examination of the way hip-hop constructs discourse, the way it produces rhetorical meaning through it’s complex method of digital sampling, and how such rhetoric functions within the scope of argumentation. (454) In hip-hop, the “take whatever you find and use it” principle acts as the dominant... Read More

CCR691 – Final Project – Rice

Rice, Jeff. “Urban Mappings: A Rhetoric of the Network.” RSQ: Rhetoric Society Quarterly 38 2 (2008): 198-218. Print. Rice begins with the contention that websites such as Google Maps and MapQuest are really sites of invention where new media is used for inventive practices of informational arrangements The “spaces” being mapped on the net are not only spatial. . . they are often ephemeral and personal.  The “territories” where... Read More