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Course Info for INTS - 344 - 10, Summer 2017
Class number: 1012 Title: Global Hip Hop Cultures Department: International Studies
Career: Undergraduate Component: Seminar Session: First Quarter
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 15 Current enrollment: 4 Available seats: 11
Start date: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 End date: Thursday, July 13, 2017 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: MW: 6:00PM-9:00PM, MC - 205 Instructor(s):
Kelly, Khaiim
Markle, Seth
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements
Note: SUMMER INSTITUTE
Course Description:
Hip-Hop is both music and culture with a global imprint that dates back to the 1980s. This course is a reading and writing intensive course that critically examines hip-hop cultural and political formations in Africa and the African Diaspora. We begin with canonical texts that contributed to the growth of an emergent interdisciplinary field called, 'Hip-Hop Studies' in order to familiarize ourselves with a set of core concepts, discourses and frameworks that will help us assess hip-hop's global emergence. What does the globalization of African-American music and culture tell us about the power and impact of neoliberalism on post-colonial identities, culture and nation-states in the non-Western world? It is a question that will shape our discussions on race, youth, masculinity, and nationalism in contemporary urban societies.