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The study of a hip hop dance crew reveals a symbiotic relationship between community and self-expression, which may serve as a model for music educators tackling issues of multiculturalism in their classroom culture and curriculum.

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The purpose of this project was to examine ReFresH: a hip hop dance crew, largely comprised of Asians and Asian-Americans, based at Northwestern University. As the study progressed, ReFresH members revealed their organizational aims and views of hip hop to be uncannily relevant to many of the issues that are raised when multiculturalism is implemented in a music education setting. Implications for practice are described based on these findings.

I conducted some preliminary research on topics I felt would be related to my study of ReFresH: music consumption, popular culture in Asian-American studies, Asian-Americans in hip hop, and hip hop itself. This is what I found: