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Class number:
1030
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Title: Intro to HipHop Music & Cult |
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Department: American Studies |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Lecture |
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Session: First Quarter |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 29 |
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Current enrollment: 11 |
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Available seats: 18 |
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Start date: Tuesday, May 30, 2023 |
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End date: Friday, June 30, 2023 |
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Mode of Instruction: Remote |
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Schedule: MW: 6:00PM-9:15PM, N/A |
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Instructor(s): Conway, Nicholas |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
Course Description:
This course will examine the evolution of hip hop music and culture (Graffiti art, B-boying [break-dancing], DJ-ing, and MC-ing) from its birth in 1970s New York to its global and commercial explosion during the late 1990s. Students learn to think critically about both hip hop culture, and about the historical, commercial, and political contexts in which hip hop culture took, and continues to take, shape. Particular attention is paid to questions of race, masculinity, authenticity, consumption, commodification, globalization, and good, old-fashioned funkiness. |