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Electronica, Technology, Mediated Performance - 2 sessions

Group Presentation November 30
 What are the implications of mediated artifacts on the musical world of hip hop? What genres of electronic music does hip hop embrace? How does science fiction figure into the hip hop "real?" What effects do technology inspire in hip hop? A consideration of Afro-futurism.

  
                         
           
Unit Assignments
          
                         
 
listen: Da Real World, Missy Elliot, 1999
 
         
 
read: “This is a Sampling Sport: Digital Sampling, Rap Music, and the Law in Cultural Production” by Thomas G. Schumacher in That’s The Joint! pp 443-458
 
         
 
read: More Brilliant Than the Sun "Motion Capture" pp. 175-193
 
             
 
read: Interview with Kodwo Eshun (1999)