MUSIC 3616 - Cornell Hip-Hop Collective

(crosslisted) AMST 3617

Fall, spring. 1 credit. Student option grading.

Permission of instructor required.

M. Fall.

This course is open to experienced rappers, beatmakers, and vocalists interested forging collaborative relationships with other students. Taking as a foundation hip-hop’s relationship to social justice, each semester we will work together to plan and record an EP on a theme or keyword chosen as a group. We will construct and analyze playlists of inspirational material, identifying specific hip-hop compositional strategies for creating beats and rhymes on a theme, and will use these tools to create and workshop our own collaborative tracks in weekly meetings. Please contact the instructor to audition. (PL)