Week 5.

August 1st, 2011 (Holiday, no-class)

Hip Hop as Popular Culture

People, Whitney A. 2008. “Under Construction” Identifying Foundations of hip hop Feminism and Exploring Bridges between Black Second-Wave and Hip Hop Feminisms. Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism. (8) 1 pp. 19-52. [UTL]. http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/111282

Lashua, Brett D. 2006. “Just Another Native?” Soundscapes, Chorasters, and Borderlands in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Cultural Studies <->Critical Methodologies 6 (3) pp. 391-410. [UTL] http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/111288

Richardson, Chris. 2011. “Can’t Tell Me Nothing”: Symbolic Violence, Education, and Kanye West. Popular Music and Society. 34 (1) pp. 97-112


Pardue, Derek. (2004). "Writing in the Margins':Brazilian Hip Hop as an Educational Project." Anthropology & Education Quarterly 35 (4) pp. 411-432


Rohter, Larry. (2007). "Brazilian Government Invests in Culture of Hip- Hop," The New York Times, March 14 [UTL]

Video: Hip Hop: Beyond the Beats and the Rhymes (in class)


August 3rd, 2011


Remix Culture

Willis, Paul. Foot Soldiers of Modernity: The Dialectics of Cultural Consumption and the 21st Century School. Harvard Educational Review (2003) V. 73 (3) pp.390-415 [UTL]

Cruger, Roberta. (2003). The Mash Up Revolution. Available at http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/2003/08/09/mashups_cruger/print.html

Lessig, Lawrence. (2008). Introduction & Chapter 4 in Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. Penguin Press. http://www.scribd.com/doc/47089238/Remix

Levay, William J. “The Art of Making Music in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: The Culture Industry Remixed. (blackboard)

Campbell, M.V. (2009) Remixing the Social: Pursuing Social Inclusion Through Music Education. In eds. Gould et al. Exploring Social Justice: How Music Education Might Matter. CEMA: Waterloo  pp.359-370. (blackboard)

Video: R.I.P. A Remix Manifesto (In-Class).