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Review Of Cowabunga ! Surfer Rock And The Five Themes Of Geography

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In Cowabunga! Surfer Rock and the Five Themes of Geography, Carney makes a strong argument for the power of music as a teaching tool. Music can be used as both a way to deliver information to students, and to allow students to express what they have learned. Studying the five themes of geography (location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and regions) can appear to be a dull experience for students on the surface. Using a tool such as surfer rock, which Carney (1999) argues has the strongest connotations to the five themes of geography with it originating in a particular region (in this case southern California), aiding in the relocation of an industry, and a diffusion of ideas (p. 10), can help breathe life into the subject. Carney (1999) points out that “other forms of American popular music...can be approached from a geographical perspective [like] country, jazz, blues, and …show more content…

The music one listens to and identifies with during adolescence has a strong impact on forming one’s world view, and hip-hop is no different. Marc Lamont Hill, Chris Emdin, and Jeff Duncan-Andrade have studied the effectiveness of hip-hop in educational settings for the past two decades (Jones, 2020). “Collectively, their research has found that hip-hop can be used to teach critical thinking skills, critical literacy, media literacy skills, STEM skills, critical consciousness and more” (Jones, 2020). These are all skills that can be used and are needed in order to conduct geographic analysis with the five themes of geography. Many of my students past and present view geography as simply identifying countries and physical features on the map. Helping them understand the greater role geography plays in human life has always been a challenge, but using a tool like hip-hop could help engage them and make connections to their everyday

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