MUSIC 3490 - Hip Hop in Global Perspective

(CA-AS, ALC-AS, SCD-AS) (CU-ITL)

Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Forbidden Overlap: due to an overlap in content, students will receive credit for only one course in the following group: AMST 2371, ASRC 2370, MUSIC 2370, MUSIC 3490.
C. Appert.

This course examines 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 dominant models of cultural globalization.