"This Is How We Do" The Hip Hop Academy Academic Year 06-07

The Hip Hop Academy is an afterschool program that teaches high school students in the New York City area how to express themselves artistically by producing, writing and recording their own original hip-hop music. It is run in conjunction with the Liberty LEADS program and is housed in the Bank Street College of Education in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. The program begins every school year with a new group of kids who meet once a week throughout the year to learn how to program beats on keyboards, write lyrics to the beats and record everything onto a computer to be mixed down into a final, take-home CD. The kids also perform their songs at an end-of-year celebration. The program was conceived and is run by Graham Mackenzie.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• hip
• hop
• young
• people