Global Hip-Hop
MUSC 295
Fall 2022
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| Course Cluster and Certificates: African Studies, African Studies Minor |
Over the past two decades, hip-hop, in its various facets of rap, deejaying, dance, visual art, fashion, and attitude toward authority, has gradually taken over as a primary medium of expression for youth around the world. Used as mass entertainment, elite aesthetic statement, social and political commentary, tool for education and social change, vehicle for economic opportunity, and as the core of a cultural movement, hip-hop has proven malleable enough to thrive embedded in scores of different languages and cultures around the world and effectively speak to local needs. Yet its local manifestations have also managed to retain their membership in a global hip-hop culture.
In this seminar we will study the global spread of hip-hop from an interdisciplinary approach, examining its varieties of expression from aesthetic, cultural, social, musical, linguistic, kinetic, economic, and technological perspectives. We will first come to an understanding of the rise and dispersion of hip-hop culture in the United States. Then, beginning with France, where it first took hold, we will move around the world examining local case studies and their more global implications. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA MUSC |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (AFST-MN)(MUSC) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Charry, GLOBAL HIP HOP (forthcoming article)
Charry, HIP HOP AFRICA
Chapters from:
Alim, Ibrahim, and Pennycook, GLOBAL LINGUISTIC FLOWS
Osumare, THE AFRICANIST AESTHETIC IN GLOBAL HIP HOP
Rivera, Marshall, and Pacini Hernandez, REGGAETON
Helbig, HIP HOP UKRAINE
Sterling, BABYLON EAST
Song, HANGUK HIP HOP
DJ Target, GRIME KIDS
Rosana and Canecvacci, LUSOPHONE HIP-HOP
Castillo-Garshow and Nichols, LA VERDAD
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Examinations and Assignments:
Responses to the assigned readings, oral presentations, a midterm paper (5-7 pages) and a final research paper (8-10 pages.) |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
See MUSC285/CGST285 for a linked course in Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum |
| Instructor(s): Charry,Eric Times: .M.W... 01:20PM-02:40PM; Location: RHH003; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 3 | JR major: 3 | | |
| Seats Available: 2 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 5 | FR: 2 |
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