Call for papers, proposals for Hip Hop conference…
CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS FOR:
“One Mic, One Movement: Advances in Hip Hop Therapy and Hip Hop Psychology”
To be held at Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, New York, NY, Feb. 4, 2012
Over the past decade, hip hop has been the impetus for the development of many organizations in the academy. For example, we now have Hip Hop Studies, Hip Hop Education and Hip Hop Law organizations and associations that are engaging in seminal work in these areas. Hip hop practice and scholarship has also emerged in the helping professions, such as social work and psychology. Hip Hop Therapy and Hip Hop Psychology has received significant attention in the literature and yet to date there has not been a conference solely dedicated to bringing these unique perspectives together in order to move the dialogue and work in this area forward. This is a critical period for a conference of this kind. A recent text has been published by Taylor & Francis, “Therapeutic Uses of Rap and Hip Hop”(Hadley & Yancy, 2011) and it contains 18 chapters describing and examining projects and practices that utilizes hip hop therapeutically with diverse populations and for a variety of therapeutic issues. We have invited these authors to attend the first conference of its kind, “One Mic, One Movement: Advances in Hip Hop Therapy and Hip Hop Psychology.” We also want to extend the call for papers to a wider audience of scholars and practitioners. We are interested in papers that explore hip hop in every aspect of the therapeutic process, including the methods used, the clinical issues addressed, and the populations we engage with this approach. Most importantly, because we live in an academic and social service environment that has become increasingly interested in “evidence”, we are primarily interested in how folks are assessing the outcomes of their work. We want to encourage outcome assessment at this critical period because in order for these methods to gain traction and credibility in the larger clinical community we will need to show that they work. Specifically, we want to invite papers that demonstrate that these methods can produce successful outcomes with a variety of groups and for a variety of issues.
Key questions to be addressed in your abstract include:
How are you using Hip Hop in your practice? What, if any, theoretical foundation have you used to guide your work? What population and clinical issue(s) you address with your methods? And finally, what have been some of the outcomes of your work and how have you assessed these outcomes?
Please submit a 500 word (or less) abstract and relevant contact information by midnight EST, December 2, 2011. Authors who respond to this call will be notified by December 16. Panel proposals and individual and group presentations are encouraged.
All submissions should be sent to Dr. Edgar H. Tyson at tyson@fordham.edu. For more information please call or text Dr. Tyson 201-575-9811.
In addition to emailing Dr. Tyson, please complete the following web-proposal form at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Q2GKDSJ so we may know where to respond to you, have your affiliations, and know the format of your presentation, thank you!
Introducing…
THE MOVEMENT: The Hip Hop Psychology Performing Arts Movement
Mission Statement:
The Hip Hop Psychology Performing Arts Movement (HHPPAM) is an artist collective comprised of diverse talents utilizing dynamic iterations of hip hop (rap/spoken word, dance/movement, visual arts, and production) to articulate a socially conscious, academically driven message. HHPPAM draws upon central tenets of Hip Hop Psychology (HHP) and provides performances, workshops, and academic presentations as a way of creatively engaging with a wide audience (youth, adults, scholars and professionals) in order to connect community members, develop youth, press the boundaries between art and science, cultivate hip hop scholarship, create a safe therapeutic space and authentic expressive outlet, foster well-being in urban settings, and to empower participants with the creative tools to create change.
Email for more information: themovement@hiphoppsychology.org
Hip Hop Psychology – News Coverage
Check out these great articles about our recent Hip Hop Psychology Colloquium at Vanderbilt University (Sept. 15-17, 2010):
- Interview with Don Lemon during CNN Newsroom broadcast at 7pm ET – Transcript (9/18/10)
- WZTV Fox 17 in Nashville – Article and Video – (9/15/10)
- WSMV-TV Nashville – Article and Video – (9/15/10)
- The Tennessean’s Coverage of Hip Hop Psychology – (9/17/10)
- Associated Press Article – the first news outlet to pick up on the story – (9/14/10)
LIVE Video Webstream (9/17/2010- Concert)
Tune in 8PM CT/ 9PM EST to watch the Concert LIVE right here. [Link to Video]
Designed by: Kevin Hritz
Inaugural Hip Hop Psychology Colloquium presents “Hip Hop Is My Psychologist” Concert , featuring THE GRITS, Friday, September 17, 2010, 8PM/Doors Open at 7:30PM (Ingram Hall, Blair School of Music). Tickets are on sale now at Sarratt Box Office and will also be available at the door: All students $10; Non-students $12.
The Hip Hop Psychology colloquium event will close with an entire Hip Hop concert, as a community intervention, to exemplify Hip Hop that already exists in the community to the university and also to begin to initiate collaborations between the community, practitioners, researchers, and scholars in order begin to speak about community issues surrounding access to culturally relevant mental health interventions and social justice.
Featuring: two-time Grammy nominee, THE GRITS, and performances by Nashville School of Dance, Vanderbilt Dance Program in conjunction with Found Movement Dance Company, Youth Speaks Nashville, Vanderbilt Spoken Word, MC Shift, Debangshu & K. Hritz, and VIBE.
9/17/2010 HIP HOP IS MY PSYCHOLOGIST CONCERT
Hip Hop Dance/ Urban Dance Therapy (HHD/UDT)
(Focuses on Hip Hop and Urban Dance/Movement more comprehensively than HHPET, but does adhere to and follows all the theories, principles, and ideals set forth in HHPET)
HHD/UDT is the therapeutic use of authentic Hip Hop and Urban dance/movements to improve client(s) mental, physical, and emotional well-being, ie. in HHD/UDT it is much more important that the client(s) is moving in a manner that is most authentic to them than if they know how to perform certain dance moves. HHD/UDT centers around the street dance style(s) or urban movements that the client(s) bring into therapy. Therefore, HHD/UDT is not utilized for the performance or learning of Hip Hop/Urban dance styles or techniques.
PURPOSE: The purpose of HHD/UDT is to create an experiential, therapeutic process through which client(s) may confront their own challenges, engage with the creative process, exist and grow in a therapeutic space, engage and collaborate with others communally, draw connections between emotionality, moods, movement, and musicality, so that client(s) may learn new ways to express themselves both verbally and non-verbally, gain mastery over emotions, and also undergo their own process of self-actualization with the goal of improving their overall state of well-being.
Additional goals of HHD/UDT include to foster authentic creative expression, adaption,catharsis, communication, critical analysis, development, empowerment, emotional identification and mastery, emancipatory knowledge-building, liberation, social interaction, resilience, and strength with the overall goal of improving physical, mental, and emotional health.
In addition, HHD/UDT:
- Helps clients develop a nonverbal language through which they may comfortably and authentically explore, manage, organize, and express their innermost emotions (particularly emotions that are complicated and difficult to express, like anger/righteous anger/frustration) in a safe space,
- Utilizes both directive and non-directive interventions together depending on client(s) need, abilities, and/or the focus of client(s) therapy, (as such there are several intervention techniques that client(s) may collaboratively utilize and pursue with their therapist, some of which require freestyling/improvisation, dance composition, mirroring, matching, catharsis, and client analysis of the emotions and narrative that relate to each of their isolated body movements, etc.),
- Helps facilitate individual and group meaning-making,
- Is “idea” focused, and non-linear in nature and in construction, which is associated with the thematic based narrative found in non-Western cultures (ie. when movements are created they are created thematically instead of linearly),
- Utilizes street dance styles and components including, but not limited to: traditional Hip Hop dance (popping, locking, breaking, boogaloo, and 1980s social dance) and Hip Hop dance new styles (choreography, commercial, fusion and world hip hop dance which include fusions of variations of Latin dances, Caribbean dances, Bangra, etc.), Street jazz, Urban Dance(s), and House Dance(s),
- Utilizes re-contextualized regional Hip Hop dances including Krumping, Hyphy, Southern Soul dance, Crunk dance, Strolling, Techtonik, etc.
- Utilizes elements of some traditional dance styles including (jazz, ballet, modern, contemporary) as they are the base components of Traditional Dance Therapy upon which HHD/UDT is constructed.
- Functions under the assumption/operationalization that Hip Hop/Urban movements: tend to be created/ occur mostly in urban environments, are typically characterized to visually appear fragmented, bent, compressed, and/or compartmentalized, and that Hip Hop/Urban Dances and Movements maximize limited space, which is connected to the ecological model of Urban Positive Psychology,
- Utilizes hip hop movements, isolations and dance phrasing and/or client choreography/dance composition,
- Pays attention to the process, content, and the final product within the therapeutic experience equally; analysis of each is made collaboratively between the therapist and the client(s),
- Utilizes verbal, non-verbal, movement, visual, and musical languages to offer insight into the emotions held within the body,
- Focuses on the mind-body connection as a paradigm for understanding and implementing preventative medical strategies,
- Provides a creative space through Hip Hop expressive arts whereby individuals can identify and express their inner emotions,
- Honors and highly values authenticity and realness, and as such utilizes HHP strategies to enable a more unguarded spontaneity to develop to allow for authentic expression and communication, AND
- Acknowledges that implicit to HHD/UDT is the concept of symbols and metaphors.