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Toni Blackman - Hip​-​Hop Spirituality

from Dissertation Mixtape by Ethan Hein

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A remix of Toni's Tedx talk, "The Cipher, the Circle, and its Wisdom." Watch the original here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYdb5snA1Jc

Remix of Toni Blackman’s 2013 talk, “The Cipher, The Circle and its Wisdom” at TEDxUMassAmherst

0:00 - Toni briefly beatboxes, so I replicate her beat with an 808.

0:22 - Toni is taking the listener to church, so I use Charles Mingus’ gospel-inflected “Better Git It In Your Soul" (1959).

1:04 - I add in "Drums Unlimited" by Max Roach (1968) as Toni talks about jazz aficionados.

1:25 - For the theme of cross-generational connection, I add in "Droppin' Science" by Marley Marl featuring Craig G (1988).

3:11 - Building critical thinking and developing creativity in the cypher - I use the Digable Planets’ coolly intellectual jazz-based song "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" (1993).

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from Dissertation Mixtape, released August 4, 2020

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Ethan Hein teaches music at NYU and the New School. He maintains a widely-followed blog at ethanhein.com.

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