MUSIC 3490

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MUSIC 3490
Hip Hop in Global Perspective

Course information provided by the 2015-2016 Catalog.

This course examins hip hop's historic development in the United States and its global spread to Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. We will explore how youth throughout the world increasingly draw on U.S. hip hop to address their own experiences of marginality, exploitation, and displacement, localizing the music in ways that potentially complicate dominat models of cultural globialization.


Distribution Category (CA-AS)

When Offered Fall.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 16311 MUSIC 3490   LEC 001

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person