Vem är egentligen expert? Hiphop som utbildningspolitik och progressiv pedagogik i USA

Who is the expert? Hip-hop as university politics and progressive education.Since hip-hop started over 35 years ago in New York, it has been associatedwith social activism and education. Accordingly, it is not surprising that academicinstitutions in universities and K-12 schools are interested in hip-hopwith regards to the history of this street culture. This article's aim is to highlightthis “hip-hop academization” and analyze the academization processes. Theresearch questions are: How is hip-hop legitimized in official webpagetexts? Who is the expert and what is at stake? What symbolic fights are goingon between pioneers of the culture and academics? How do hip-hop scholarstalk about the academization? The theoretical framework stems from sociologistPierre Bourdieu, including his work within cultural fields and capital forms.The empirical data, which has been collected with an ethnographical approach,are webpage texts, observations, recordings from academic events concernedwith hip-hop and individual interviews with hip-hop scholars in New York Cityduring 2010. The results show how hip-hop at the university is an attractivelabel and a door-opener for the scholars, but at the same time how hip-hop isregarded as low-culture within the university. Finally, the data shows how thepioneers of hip hop construct the scholars as outsiders in order to maintainthemselves as foremost experts of the culture