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Using positive youth development theory, the paper analyzes how participants’ hip-hop production supports relational connection, life-skill growth, and personal development. 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On a typical day, participants arrived a little before 4:00 pm, greeted HYS youth workers by firstname, and caught up on the day. Then they headed into their program activities, where they pursued their interests, collaborated with others, and developed skills.  \nWhat was special about this space, however, was the kind of creative work young people did: professional-level hip-hop music production using high-end equipment inan in-house recording studio. Daily, participants wrote songs, tinkered on the sound board, constructed beats, collaborated on songwriting, led recording sessions, and sequenced songs for album release.  \nConsider this example from fieldwork I conducted at HYS. Leo, the head youth worker, and  \n“Bree” (a pseudonym, like all participant names in this article) sat next to each other in front of a large computer screen. Working with a professional music software program, they created beats to put with the lyrics Bree had just written. Leo showed Bree how to use the keyboard, pressing different keys to produce different sounds. After watching Leo intently, Bree strung together her own beats. Leo found her sound unique and her beat timing on point; both of these technological skills take time to develop. When Leo told Bree that she had a knack for beat making, she smiled. Bree was, like other HYS participants, immersing herself in hip-hop production. Working collaboratively with staff and peers, HYS participants learned high-level technological skills, increased their  \nERICA VAN STEENIS is a doctoral candidate in learning sciences and human development in the School of Education at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She holds an MS in community development from the University of California, Davis. Erica has extensive teaching experience with undergraduates and 15 years of experience in outof-school time settings.  \ncapacity for relational connections, and experienced personal growth on many levels.  \nThis paper draws on positive youth development theory to highlight the significance of HYS participants’hip-hop music production, focusing on three HYS organizational features that supported participants’growth. My findings lead to recommendations for outof-school time (OST) programs that combine creativity with development of life skills.  \nHip-Hop and Its Pedagogical Use Across Contexts  \nHip-hop, a movement that encompasses art, politics, and culture, emerged in the Bronx, New York, in the 1970s (Love, 2016) . Some scholars emphasize that hip-hop emerged as a multicultural and multiracial phenomenon (Chang, 2005; Chang & Watkins, 2007); others argue that it arose most prominently from African-American experiences of oppression and marginalization (Rabaka, 2013; Rose, 1994) . Hip-hop has played an important role in community organizing and movements for social justice (Chang, 2005; Chang & Watkins, 2007; Rose, 1994) . It resonates with young people across lines of gender, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status (Alim, 2011) and especially  \nschool English and science curricula. English teachers have drawn on hip-hop lyrics to develop their students’critical lens for analyzing the circumstances of their lives (Morrell & Duncan-Andrade, 2002; Stovall, 2006) . Teacher-researchers, including Emdin (2011), have made science relevant by connecting it with students’ hip-hop cultural identities.  \nThe second line of research comes from a burgeoning field of practice that uses hip-hop music production in afterschool spaces to contribute to young people’s positive development. Hip-hop–focused OST programs include, among many others:  \n• The Living Remix Project in New York City ([http://](http://)[ ](http://)[thelivingremix.bandcamp.com](thelivingremix.bandcamp.com)), which provides a pathway for youth to gain ","cbCaiqzQQCO1snrd","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqzQQCO1snrd","pdf",123996,"English","# Positive Youth Development Through Hip-Hop Music Production\n## Hip-Hop and Its Pedagogical Use Across Contexts\n## Recommendations for Out-of-School Time Programs","[{\"question\":\"What is special about the Horizon Youth Service (HYS) program described in the paper?\",\"answer\":\"HYS focuses on professional-level hip-hop music production in an in-house recording studio, where participants write songs, build beats, collaborate on songwriting, and sequence tracks for album release.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper connect hip-hop production to positive youth development?\",\"answer\":\"It uses positive youth development theory to show that hip-hop production in OST supports growth through high-level technological learning, stronger relational connections, and multi-level personal development.\"},{\"question\":\"What range of educational contexts does the paper discuss for hip-hop’s use?\",\"answer\":\"It discusses hip-hop’s pedagogical use across K–12 school curricula (e.g., analyzing lyrics and connecting science to cultural identities) and across afterschool practice through hip-hop-focused OST programs.\"}]","Positive Youth Development - Through Hip-Hop Music Production | PDF",1792070641,23]