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Welcome to the sounding board for Chase March. Here you will find my various articles about a variety of topics (DJ Events and news, book reviews, skatepark tours, teaching-related articles and resources, and much more)
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3rd Annual Women in Hip-Hop Spectacular
DOPEfm’s 3rd Annual Women in Hip-Hop Spectacular runs tonight on 93.3 CFMU on your radio dial with live streaming from the radio station’s website. You can also listen to us on Cogeco Cable Channel 288, on Shaw Cable 93.9 fm, through your phone by dialing 704-702-7627 and inputting station ID 10042, and with the Tune In…
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Celebrating International Women’s Day – Women in Hip-Hop 3
Beautiful poster done by one of my students DOPEfm celebrates International Women’s Day every year by dedicating the entire overnight program to the Women in Hip-Hop. This year marks the third annual special presentation. For this year’s show I have produced two hours of Know Your History detailing the important moments in female-fronted hip-hop from…
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How Did I Get Here? (The Power of a Good Story)
Here are the latest books that I have read. I am continuing to catalog every title here on Silent Cacophony. This is part of my 2013 reading log. How Did I Get Here: The Ascent of an Unlikely CEO by Tony Hawk Tony Hawk is probably the most recognized name when it comes to extreme…
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Ice T’s Rap School (Lesson Plan)
Ice T went to a prestigious prep school in New York and taught a group of kids who literally knew nothing about rap music and hip-hop culture, how to write and perform their own rap song. The best thing about the whole experience is that it was filmed for a television series on VH1 back in…
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Revert Skatepark (London, Ontario)
This is quite possibly the strangest skatepark you will ever see. It’s set inside a church. You can see the stage that is used as The Altar for Sunday Service. The floor we are skating on is where the congregation sits. You can see all of the chairs stacked up along the wall. It’s called…
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Chasing Content – March 2012
It’s the first of the month. Time for a little feature we call Chasing Content . . . A feature that lets us shine a light through the many blog posts that get planted here. So, let’s go back in time and look at the best posts of last March. You can read all of…
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Amazing Black History Month Posters
These are awesome! I really should have done more to celebrate Black History this month, but I try to do that as often as I can, and not just in February.
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An Interview with Shanaya Fastje
Today, we continue our discussion with Shanaya Fastje, author of Bully in the Mirror: Making Hate Stop When You Don’t Think You Can.” We’ve already had quite the discussion so far. If you want to go back and read Part 1 of the transcript, you can do that now. You can also stream the entire…
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Bully in the Mirror (Straight Talk about a Major Problem)
Chase: “All right everybody, this is Chase March. I have a special guest on the program right now, author of “Bully in the Mirror: Making Hate Stop When You Don’t Think You Can,” Shanaya Fastje. You can read the transcript of the interview, stream in with the player below, or download it to listen to…
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Failure is Often the First Step in the Learning Process
Tony Hawk is the greatest skateboarder the world has ever seen. But he didn’t get there without some pain, hard work, and lots of effort. He recently posted this on Facebook and I think it serves as food for thought. In everything we do, there is a learning curve. Tony Hawk didn’t fail with this…