TeachRock Partners With The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame partners with Steven Van Zandtâ€s Rock and Roll Forever Foundation to provide groundbreaking teaching materials on the history of hip hop, a collaboration made possible by two leading educational teams. 

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is based in Cleveland, OH, the Rock Hallâ€s mission is to engage, teach and inspire through the power of Rock and Roll.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, based in Cleveland OH, has served as a cornerstone in preserving and celebrating a rich history of rock and roll tradition. This tradition is entirely incomplete without the recognition of hip hop as a mammoth musical and cultural influence, which is highlighted in a new partnership between the Rock Hall and Rock and Roll Forever Foundationâ€s TeachRock program. 

TeachRockâ€s completely free, student-facing “Roots of Hip Hop” Distance Learning Pack, helps underscore the importance of some of the Rock Hallâ€s earliest and most recent inductees - artists from Parliament Funkadelic (class of 1997) to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (2007), Run-D.M.C (2009), Public Enemy (2013) and N.W.A (2016). The collaboration also features breakdowns of important techniques like "sampling" popularized by the genre. 

For more information and access to these downloadable lesson plans, visit https://info.rockhall.com/hip-hop-collection