Proposal Title
BUILD-A-BOP: A Conversation with Your Inner Self through Hip Hop Therapy
Abstract
According to The Nielsen Report, hip hop was the most popular and consumed genre of music in 2018; yet, there is still a resistance to using it in academic and clinical settings. The structural and improvisational qualities of hip hop music are useful to not only connect an individual to their inner psyche through freestyle rap, but also to connect the expressive art therapies to marginalized or underprivileged communities and clients. In this presentation and workshop, graduate music therapy student Corrine Mina and graduate drama therapy student Keynessa Nazaire will explore the reasons of resistance to hip hop and rap music in educational institutions while demonstrating its potential uses in therapeutic settings by creative beat making, rhyme recitation, and lyrical storytelling. In doing so, the presenters hope to achieve psychosocial clinical goals while uplifting the voices of historically subjugated populations and bridging the gap between music and drama therapy. We will utilize drama therapy approaches such as DvT and role play to help our participants enter a state of an alter rapper ego. These approaches often allow clients, or in this case our participants, to express themselves freely without fear of consequences in a safe environment. This is an easy and fun introduction to aesthetic distancing that clinicians try to achieve when trying to successfully help with a client's journey to heal. The final product of the workshop will be an original hip hop song created by the presenters and the participants.
Start Date
27-3-2019 1:00 PM
End Date
27-3-2019 1:50 PM
Room Number
U-Hall 3-092
Presentation Type
Workshop
Disciplines
American Popular Culture | Music Therapy | Other Mental and Social Health | Other Theatre and Performance Studies
BUILD-A-BOP: A Conversation with Your Inner Self through Hip Hop Therapy
According to The Nielsen Report, hip hop was the most popular and consumed genre of music in 2018; yet, there is still a resistance to using it in academic and clinical settings. The structural and improvisational qualities of hip hop music are useful to not only connect an individual to their inner psyche through freestyle rap, but also to connect the expressive art therapies to marginalized or underprivileged communities and clients. In this presentation and workshop, graduate music therapy student Corrine Mina and graduate drama therapy student Keynessa Nazaire will explore the reasons of resistance to hip hop and rap music in educational institutions while demonstrating its potential uses in therapeutic settings by creative beat making, rhyme recitation, and lyrical storytelling. In doing so, the presenters hope to achieve psychosocial clinical goals while uplifting the voices of historically subjugated populations and bridging the gap between music and drama therapy. We will utilize drama therapy approaches such as DvT and role play to help our participants enter a state of an alter rapper ego. These approaches often allow clients, or in this case our participants, to express themselves freely without fear of consequences in a safe environment. This is an easy and fun introduction to aesthetic distancing that clinicians try to achieve when trying to successfully help with a client's journey to heal. The final product of the workshop will be an original hip hop song created by the presenters and the participants.
