AFRAMER 142 - Hiphop and Don't Stop: 15 Years of Hiphop Scholarship

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Harvard University

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This course simultaneously analyzes the cultural and social aspects of hiphop that both reflect and challenge our world. This course will explore and evaluate the most compelling thinking and research pertaining to hiphop and the youth and institutions that continue to build and represent hiphop culture. Since the 1990s several important scholars have engaged in dialogue about the importance of hiphop. Geneva Smitherman and Walter Edwards examined the linguistic creativity of hiphop and its influence on African American English and Global varieties and discourse. The first amendment free speech issues like that associated with the group 2 Live Crew that drew the public comments of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Houston Baker, Jr., who were then academic stars and rising public intellectuals also dominated the 1990s. Both bell hooks (1993, 1994) and Angela Davis (1993) had conversations about politics and feminism with Ice Cube, formerly of NWA in the 1990s. The significance of hiphop in African American culture was also addressed by the philosopher Cornel West (1993), historian Robin G. Kelley (1996, 1997), political scientist Michael Dawson (1997), and sociologist Paul Gilroy (1994), who celebrated and critiqued the impact of the relentless and often problematic images, philosophies, and personas materializing in hiphop culture. The course will examine all of these issues and more.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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