Traditionsbärare och fostrare : samtal om lärande med två amerikanska rappare

Research about non-institutional musical environments, like hiphop, is importantwhen education and learning are being discussed. The literature on aesthetic informallearning is limited. We need to know more about how learning is organised inautonomous and musical contexts.In this article two female rappers from New York City are in focus. The rapper JeanGrae is a Grammy nominated rapper who is well-known around the world. ToniBlackman is a hiphop ambassador, appointed by the U.S. Department of State. Herdifferent social and educational projects on hiphop have been given a lot of attentionin the press.The purpose of this article is to study what kinds of learning aspects appear in therappers’ talk about their work in interviews, group conversations, magazines and selfproducedtexts.The results show how the rappers stand out like fosterers, popular adult educators,jazz musicians, tradition-bearers, specialists and artists. Linguistic reformulationsare used to analyze the complexity of the rappers' activities. Finally, the articlediscusses how school can be a fosterer and a tradition-bearer and at the same timepositive and open to new forms of popular culture