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21M.775 Hip Hop
Thomas DeFrantz
10-272
TR 1:00-2:30 3-270
253-6957
defrantz@mit.edu

This class is a HASS elective; to see the requirements for the semester, check out the Syllabus.

                
                       
   Introduction and Overview - 3 Sessions
What is hip hop? What is its history? How has it come to take up a huge space in the American popular culture imagination? What are its boundaries and limitations? How can we establish a method for the study of something we call "hip hop?"  		          
                         
 

Unit Assignments

                
               
    view: Wild Style (1983) Monday, September 11 7:00 pm 1-134        
               
    read: Prologue, Introduction, Chapter One, Nine, Epilogue pp1 -55; 229-259        
                         
    read: "What is this 'Black' in Black Popular Culture?" by Stuart Hall in Black Popular Culture edited by Michele Dent, Seattle, Bay Press, 1992, pp. 21-33        
                         
    Free-Write Assignment Due September 12