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  ANARCHY AND ACTIVISM          
     
             

Anarchy and Activism - 2 sessions

Group Presentation October 26
 Hip Hop has long been figured as the “CNN of the Streets,” able to incite action and progressive change. But gangsta strains of hip hop seem to incite anarchy as much as activism. Are activism and anarchy two sides of the same coin? Can they be successfully combined in popular music for progressive social action?

              
     
             
     
Unit Assignments
            
               

view: Rhyme and Reason (1997) October 23 1-134 7pm

      
               

listen: Steal This Album The Coup, 1998

          
               

listen: Let's Get Free Dead Prez , 2000

          
             
read: Hip Hop Matters Chapters 5, 6, 7 pp 143-205
            
             
read: "The Challenge of Rap Music from Cultural Movement to Political Power” by Bakari Kitwana in That’s the Joint! Pp 341-362
            
                       

read:“An Exploration of Spectacular Consumption: Gangsta Rap as Cultural Commodity” by Eric K. Watts in That’s The Joint! Pp 593 - 609a