Unit
Overview
graffiti, fashion, visual culture
Graffiti, Fasion, Visual Culture - 2 sessions
Group
Presentation September October 21
How have fashion and graffiti
been important to hip hop style? How did graffiti grow up? How did baggy
pants and dookie chains become popular? Has flossing always been a part
of hip hop? Are there boundaries to gender representations in hip hop
fashion or visual culture?
Unit
Assignments
view: Style Wars Tony Silver and Harry Chalfant, 1983
Screening Monday, September 18 1-134 7:00pm
read:
“Taking The Trains: The Formation
and Structure of ‘Writing Culture’ in the Early 1970s”
and “The Walls and the World: Writing
Culture, 1982-1990" in Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became
an Urban Crisis in New York City by Joe Austin (New York: Columbia University
Press, 2001), pp. 38-74, 227-267
read:
“Suckers Don’t Last a Minute: Good Rhyme, Bad Theory”
and “Hip-Hop is Supposed to Eliminate Itself” by William Upski
Wimsatt in Bomb the Suburbs New York: Soft Skull Press, 1994, pp 145-155
read:
“I Am Fashion: Puff Daddy Packages His World” by Michael Specter
in The New Yorker September 9, 2002, pp 116-127
