| Day/Date | Topic | Class Notes | Reading Due | Assignment Due |
| Tuesday 8/27 | Introductions/Hybrid | #ThrowItBack | ||
| Friday 8/30 | Analyzing Hip Hop History | Dimitriadis, Greg. “Introduction” in Performing Identity/Performing Culture: Hip Hop as Text, Pedagogy, and Lived Practice pages 1-14
Chang, Jeff “Furious Styles: The Evolution of Style in the Seven-Mile World” in Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (2005) 109-126 |
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| Tuesday 9/3 | Analyzing Hip Hop History | Review Blogging in Class | Rose, Tricia “‘All Aboard the Night Train’: Flow, Layering, and Rupture in Postindustrial New York” in Black Noise (1994) 21-61 | |
| Friday 9/7 | Analyzing Hip Hop History | Forman, Murray. “Space Matters: Hip Hop and the Spatial Perspective,” in The ‘Hood Comes First, pages 1-34 | ||
| Tuesday 9/10 | De/Constructing Gender and Sexuality | GG: Introduction “The Art of Getting Ovaries”
West, T. and J. Kalamka. “‘It’s All One:’ A Conversation between Juba Kalamka and Tim’m West” in Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop pages 198–208 |
Blog #1 | |
| Friday 9/13 | De/Constructing Gender and Sexuality | Guest Observer! Dr. Parameswaran | GG: Performing Feminist Masculinity in a Postfeminist Era | |
| Tuesday 9/17 | De/Constructing Gender and Sexuality | McFarland, Louis. “Multiracial Macho: Kemo the Blaxican’s Hip Hop Masculinity” in The Chican@ Hip Hop Nation: Politics of a New Millennial Mestizaje (2013) pages 157-174 | ||
| Friday 9/20 | De/Constructing Gender and Sexuality | pay attention to which “Morgan” essay you read! | Morgan, Marcyliena. “(Ph)eminists of the New School: Real Women, Tough Politics, and Female Science” in The Real Hiphop: Battling for Knowledge, Power, and Respect in the LA Underground pages 131-159 | |
| Tuesday 9/24 | Hip Hop Feminism/Feminist Hip Hop | Morgan, Joan. “Hip-Hop Feminist” in When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost pages 47-63
Aisha Durham, Brittney C. Cooper, and Susana M. Morris, 2013. “The Stage Hip-Hop Feminism Built: A New Directions.” In Signs Vol. 38, No. 3: 721-737. |
Blog #2 | |
| Friday 9/27 | Hip Hop Feminism/Feminist Hip Hop | The Crunk Feminist Collective. “Hip Hop Generation Feminism: Feminism All the Way Turned Up” pages 169-184
Navarro, Jenell. “Solarize-ing Native Hip-Hop: Native Feminist Land Ethics And Cultural Resistance” pages 101-118 |
Each group to fill out Google Form requesting WUHH dates by 9/30. | |
| Tuesday 10/1 | Hip Hop Feminism/Feminist Hip Hop | GG: Doing Feminist Community without “Feminist” Identity | ||
| Friday 10/4 | Hip Hop Feminist Pedagogy | Brown. “Conclusion” in Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip-hop Feminist Pedagogy, pages 134-149
Smalls and Pabón. “Critical Intimacies,” in All Hail the Queenz special issue of Women & Performance. |
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| Tuesday 10/8 | Remix: Representing and Re-Membering Hip Hop | GG: Cultivating Affective Digital Networks | ||
| Friday 10/11
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Remix: Representing and Re-Membering Hip Hop | Watch “The Get Down” Episode 1 in class | Rivera, Raquel Z. “It’s Just Begun,” In New York Ricans, pages 49-77. | Blog #3 on Hip Hop Feminism |
| Friday 10/18 | Remix: Representing and Re-Membering Hip Hop | Discuss 1/2/3 | Fernandes, Sujatha “The Making of a Hip Hop Globe” in Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation (2011) 1-23 | Watch episode 1, 2, and 3 at home |
| Tuesday 10/22 | Remix: Representing and Re-Membering Hip Hop | GG: Re-Membering Herstory and the Transephemeral Performative |
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| Friday 10/25 **Hybrid Day** |
Remix: Representing and Re-Membering Hip Hop | No Class | Kuttner and White-Hammond. “(Re)building the cypher: Fulfilling the promise of hip hop for liberation,” in The Organic Globalizer pages 43-57 | Blog #4: Watch episodes 4 and 5 and blog about them in relation to reading. |
| Tuesday 10/29 | Remix: Representing and Re-Membering Hip Hop | WUHH: Ain’t Nothin But a Vibe | Fairley, Ja. “How To Make Love With Your Clothes On : Dancing Regeton, Gender, And Sexuality In Cuba” in Reggaeton (2009) 280-294 Online: #perreocombativo |
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| Friday 11/1 | Remix: Representing and Re-Membering Hip Hop | Tamar Sharma, Nitasha “Flipping the Gender Script: Gender and Sexuality in South Asian and Hip Hop America” In Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness (2010) 138-189 (51) | ||
| Tuesday 11/5 | Remix: Representing and Re-Membering Hip Hop | WUHH: Team 7 | Tiongson, Antonio T. “The Normative Boundaries of Filipinoness” in Filipinos Represent (2013) 65-88 (23) | Watch episode 6 at home |
| Friday 11/8 | Remix: Representing and Re-Membering Hip Hop | WUHH:A New Sound
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Pardue, Derek “Mano/Mana: The Engendering of the Periferia” in Brazilian Hip Hoppers Speak From The Margins: We’s on Tape (2011) 121-158 (37) | |
| Tuesday 11/12 | Remix: Representing and Re-Membering Hip Hop | Snorton, C. Riley. “Rumor Has it” in Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low. U of Minnesota Press, 2014. pages 121-146 | ||
| Friday 11/15 *Hybrid Day* |
Remix: Representing and Re-Membering Hip Hop | No Class | Rose, Tricia. “Hip Hop is Not Responsible for Sexism,” in The Hip Hop Wars. pages 149-165. | Blog #5: Watch episodes 7, 8, and 9 at home and blog about them in relation to readings. |
| Tuesday 11/19 | Remix: Representing and Re-Membering Hip Hop | WUHH: CTRL F5 | GG: Transforming Precarity at International All-Grrl Jams | |
| Friday 11/22
SEI: Monday, 11/25/19 8:00am and Monday, 12/9/19 at midnight. |
Remix: Representing and Re-Membering Hip Hop | WUHH:Baddies with a Beat; Watch episode 10 in class | Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean “I See the Same Ho”: Video Vixens, Beauty Culture, and Diasporic Sex Tourism”” in Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women (2008) 23-52 (29) | |
| Tuesday 11/26
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Remix: Representing and Re-Membering Hip Hop | WUHH:Tang Wu Clan
Review Final Projects |
McFarland and Ball, “¡Ya basta con Latino!: The Re-Indigenization and Re-Africanization of Hip Hop,” in La Verdad: Hip Hop Latinidades pages 41-57 | |
| Tuesday 12/3 | Remix: Representing and Re-Membering Hip Hop | WUHH: Y2K
Start Episode 11 in class |
Flaherty. “Asserting identity through music: Indigenous hip hop and self-empowerment,” in The Organic Globalizer pages 129-148 | |
| Friday 12/6
SEI: Monday, 11/25/19 8:00am and Monday, 12/9/19 at midnight. |
Course Wrap Up! | Finish Episode 11 in class | DeGarmo and Wrobbel. “Liberation hip hop: Palestinian hip hop and peaceful resistance,” in The Organic Globalizer pages 111-127. | Semester Quote Collection |
| Friday 12/13 | 10:15am-12:15am | Share: Each One Teach One | Final Project |
