Episode 10 - Rod Wallace
Artist and community heavyweight, Dr. Rod Wallace, checks in to talk the perception of hip-hop, the process of making of music and the introspection that accompanies, and details on his upcoming project.
About Rod Wallace
Dr. Roderick Wallace is an educator and Hip Hop advocate whose work centers around Hip Hop production and creation as a tool in schools and communities to promote self-awareness and social justice and music technology as a STEM starting block for children. Wallace earned his Ph.D from EMU in 2023 with the dissertation "Step in the Arena: A Narrative Inquiry, Autoethnographic Exploration of Black Male Educators from the Hip Hop Generation Who Rhyme, Teach, and Get Free." Wallace has published six solo Hip Hop projects and produced or engineered on several others.
Wallace executive produced the critically acclaimed "Formula 734" hip-hop documentary for men of color with Washtenaw County My Brother's Keeper and co-founded the Amplify Project, exchanging recording and production resources to independent Black musicians for volunteerism to community organizations. Wallace also owns Zero Noize Media, producing music-based programming and content for school districts and communities.
