Hip Hop Headphones is a crash course in Hip Hop culture. Featuring definitions, lectures, academic essays, and other scholarly discussions and resources, Hip Hop Headphones documents the scholarship of Dr. James B. Peterson, founder of Hip Hop Scholars-an organization devoted to developing the educational potential of Hip Hop.

Defining Hip Hop from multi-disciplinary perspectives that embrace the elemental forms of Hip Hop Culture (b-boying, dj-ing, rapping, and graffiti art), Hip Hop Headphones is the definitive guide to how Hip Hop culture can be used in the classroom to engage and inspire students.

Introduction: “An Apologia”
SECTION ONE – (Re)Definition
Chapter 1:“The Elements and Eras of Hip Hop Culture”
Chapter 2:“Defining Rap Music”
Chapter 3:“Hip Hop and Race”
Chapter 4:“Hip Hop's Holy Trinity”
SECTION TWO – “Hip Hop Speaks”
Chapter 5:“How I became a HH Scholar/The Story of Hip Hop”
Chapter 6:“From Ashy to Classy: Class in Hip Hop Culture”
Chapter 7:“Best Never Heard: Playlist Pedagogy in Hip Hop”
SECTION THREE - “Scholarly Review”
Chapter 8:“Blues, Hip Hop & the Blueprints for Black Expression”
Chapter 9:“Angry Black White Boyz”
Chapter 10:“A Review of Mansbach's Rage is Back”
Chapter 11:“A Review of 'Nothin But A 'G' Thang'”
Chapter 12:“A Review of Beats, Rhymes, and Life”
Chapter 13:“A Review of What Black Men Think”
SECTION FOUR -- “Rap Roundtable(s)”
Chapter 14:“CUNY Hip Hop Roundtable” Moderated by Jay Smooth
Chapter 15:“OSU Hip Hop Roundtable” Moderated by James Peterson
SECTION FIVE – “Rapademics”
Chapter 16:“B-Boy Rules for Hip Hop Intellectuals”
Chapter 17:“These 3 Words: Censoring Hip Hop . . .”
Chapter 18:“Corner Boy Masculinity”
Chapter 19:“Rewriting the Remix: College Comp and HH”