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CS92PROD
Engaging Audiences: Spectatorship Within Black Popular Culture and Performance

CHUM 370
Fall 2016 not offered
Crosslisting: THEA 370, AFAM 370
Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory

This course uses recent scholarship on spectatorship and popular culture to interrogate the production and reception of "popular" black performances and representations within and beyond the United States. With special attention to the historical context in which these black cultural products are created, disseminated, and received, we focus on the social spaces, local contexts, temporal conditions, and embodied acts within which these case studies emerge and examine the political implications of their consumption and sustainability. Central to our investigation will be a consideration of the ways in which the terrain of "the popular" is inextricably linked to issues of aesthetics, appropriation, authenticity, circulation, community, globalization, identity, marginalization, meaning-making, and power. Case studies will include historic and contemporary examples from theater, dance, film, music, media, and the visual arts.
Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA CHUM
Course Format: SeminarGrading Mode: Graded
Level: UGRD Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a Requirement for: None

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