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**The Global Journal**
**of Hip-Hop Culture**

The world’s first peer-reviewed Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture

Posts in Volume 2

Volume 2, Issue 1: Foundations, Definitions, and Hip-Hop as Pedagogy (1986–1995)

Volume 2, Issue 1 examines the foundations of hip-hop culture and its role as an educational and political movement. Essays explore the conscious era of hip-hop and the ways the culture shaped identity, knowledge, and community learning.