Hip-Hop: Political, Historical And Social Discourses

MASS

473

Hip-Hop: Political, Historical And Social Discourses

Certain music reflect changes and advances in the historical, social and by extension political fabric of American society that can be symbolized and viewed as catalysts in the development of landmark legal decisions, the formation of changes in the society's social institutions and voices of sentiment that far exceed aesthetic appreciation. Hip Hop: historical, social and political discourses will present the above thesis through key music compositions that highlight aural and visual representations to students through connections that may be illustrated in legal decisions that result in the origins of laws, in the historical record in U.S. society from the rise of the Jim Crow era (1896, Plessy vs. Ferguson), to its dismantling by Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) and continuing through the end of the Vietnam Conflict (April 30, 1975, the Fall of Saigon). Contemporary society is extrapolated to show how the development of rap and hip hop are contributions from these events. This is a period of advancement characterizes the most creative outpouring of production for African Americans, or any ethnic group for that matter, in the U.S. 20th and early 21st centuries.

Fall, Spring

Undergraduate

Yes

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