‘Wot U Call It?’: Rap and its subgenres in the music education world
This fun session will explore the difference between contemporary styles like Drill, Rap, Grime, Hip-Hop, and Afrobeats. After offering musical examples and examining the characteristics, challenges and opportunities of each subgenre, the session will examine how these genres could inform the work of Music Hubs and music education more broadly.
Speakers
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Charly Richardson
Lewisham Music
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Max Wheeler
Charly Richardson
Lewisham Music
Max Wheeler
Max Wheeler is a producer and DJ who has released albums on Gilles’ Peterson’s Brownswood, Tru Thoughts and First Word Records. As half of Anushka he has performed live from Saigon to Siberia via Texas and Berlin with over 10m streams online. He has worked with artists ranging from members of Kraftwerk to Grime legend Trim, also remixing artists from Snoop Dogg to Gorgon City. Over the last couple of years he has built a healthy online audience with his weekly analog hardware studio jams recorded onto reel to reel tape – and just this month launching his own label ’Near Future’.
He has been an educator for nearly 20 years, starting with Youth Clubs in West Yorkshire and Lancashire and currently the author and Programme Director of the VIP Studio Sessions online learning platform for Charanga, winner of the Music Teacher Award for Best Digital Resource in 2018 and currently in use by 40,000 secondary school students in the UK and around the world. During the pandemic Max worked on a small team developing a new accessible online DAW ‘YuStudio’ which is available free of charge for all Youth Music Projects and now available to all Charanga students (currently over 11,000 schools). Max also delivers CPD, training and workforce development on Music Technology, Engagement and Inclusion to a number of Music Hubs and Community organisations around the UK.