ANT 395-02 - Advanced Special Topic: Anthropological Approaches to Global Hip Hop(s)

4 credits (Fall)

In AAGH, we will sharpen tools with which to experience hip hop in its scaled diversity. How do artists make affinities and draw distinctions along aesthetic, political, and other social lines? Beyond the US, what symbolic status do artists accord the genre’s African-American historical lineages? Hip hop scholars have productively analyzed the genre by way of analytics like (post-)industrialization, authenticity, resistance, and identity. One goal will be to also explore how hip hop relates to media ideology, subjectivity, and publics/groups/nations. Through a variety of activities, we will encounter a diverse range of hip hop’s crafts in addition to rap.

Prerequisite: ANT 104.
Instructor: Staff

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