MUSIC 1327 - GLOBAL HIP HOP

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This seminar analyzes how diverse groups of musicians and listeners use hip-hop to express local and transnational claims of belonging through the appropriation of musical genres identified with the West and with African Americans in particular. A closer reading of global hip-hop practices offers insights into the genre's artistic goals and its social profile in a variety of contexts. Through analyses of locally distinct musical expressions, marketing trends within national and global music industries, and state-sponsored policies relating to hip-hop, this course sheds light on hip-hop's role in constituting cultural and political identities among diverse groups of people in the U.S. And abroad.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Attributes: African Studies, DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Global Issues General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Hourly Final, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Undergraduate Research

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