MUSIC 245 A: Roots and Routes of Rap

Opportunities for creativity situating rap in a larger history of African American music. Different forms of rap. Explores issues of race, gender, class, resistance, community building, notions of authenticity, the impact of mass media, appropriation, representation, politics of sampling, creativity, concepts of Blackness, and the place of rap in and beyond African American culture. Recommended: MUSIC 160 or MUSIC 162.