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      Unit Overview                
                         

 

Space and Place

                   
 

Space and Place - 2 Sessions

Group Presentation December 7
 How is hip hop grounded in particular locations? How is hip hop different in different regions of the United States? What are the terms of regionalism that seem to define certain genres of hip hop?

                         
      Unit Assignments              
                         
      view: Dirty States of America: The Untold Story of Southern Hip-Hop (2004) December 4 1-134 7pm  

 

     
                         
      read: “Black Empires, White Desires: The Spatial Politics of Identity in the Age of Hip-Hop” by Davarian L. Baldwin in That’s The Joint! pp 159 - 176        
                   
      read: "Diasporic Noise: History, Hip Hop, and the Post-colonial Politics of Sound" by George Lipsitz in Dangerous Crossroads, New York, Verso, 1994, pp. 23-48        
                   
      read “Space Matters: Hip-Hop and the Spatial Perspective” in The ‘Hood Comes First: Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop by Murray Forman (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2002), pp. 1-34