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SoSe 23: "It’s Bigger than…”: Hip Hop History and Hip Hop Studies

Martin Lüthe

Kommentar

The object of this seminar is to introduce students to two interrelated objects of study: hip hop culture on the one hand and the transnational scholarship on hip hop culture on the other. By explicating the “meta-perspective” on the study of hip hop within academic circles, we might be able to better access the crucial question of the kinds of cultural work hip hop has (and still does?) perform in North American culture and beyond the United States. If we can agree that it makes sense to study, for example, the complex politics of hip hop, are the politics of hip hop studies similarly complex or more straight-forward? Put simply: let us try to accomplish more than to revisit and reiterate the undoubtedly rich and complex entangled histories of MCing, DJaying, graffiti, and breakdancing from the late 1970s on! ----- For full credit, you need to hand in five different responses to the readings for five different sessions; preferably at the beginning of the respective session! At the end of the semester, you will have to write a research paper or in-class exam. Please come and talk to me about either option, before you start researching for a specific topic. The deadline for the research paper would be October 1, 2023. ----- If all you need is participation, I would like you to briefly present in-class on a topic of you choosing and submit the five responses (as outlined above). Schließen

14 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Di, 12:00 - 14:00 14 Termine

Di, 18.04.2023 12:00 - 14:00

Dozenten:
Prof. Dr. Martin Lüthe