We continued with our presentations today on hip hop culture. Over half the class hadn't read the assignment, so they caught up on the reading while the six or seven students who'd read chapter 1-3 had a discussion. Homework is to read Chapter 4. Wednesday we'll listen to some music from the period we've read about and maybe watch a little YouTube. Next week we will look at Chapters 5-7. If students want to bring in music for the era for extra credit, that would be great. Send me a link to the lyrics and I can run copies in advance. Call me on my cell and let me know the day before you need the copies.
Remember Sept. 11, 18, and 25 we will meet in the library for an information literacy workshop. There are three parts. If you miss one, you have to make it up next month.
We will be researching women in hip hop. This is a group project. There will be an essay and an interactive presentation. If you want to work alone, this is okay.
Who are the early women in hip hop? How do they avoid the more negative aspects of the more commercialized forms of the genre? I'm speaking of the blatant misogyny, violence and exploitation themes--American values in the marketplace certainly--hip hop is just a more recent manifestation, or do they participate?
I will hand out the rest of Dyson's book, Know What I Mean, tomorrow so you can read ahead if you like.
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 5:33 PM
3 Comments:
This reading comes off a bit strong, I eventually caught on though. Dyson is a very intelligent man. No doubt, he knows what he's talking about. The fact is everyone has their personal and professional opinions about the hip hop culture. It is very important that you approach it with an open mind. And it seems as if that is what's happening here, so far iv'e read. Dyson addresses these crictics making his self very clear explaining where they made their mistake in analyzing the information they were listening to. Dyson go hard.Lol!
On Tuesday, the most surprising presentation was the one of Mike. I did not know where he get the idea from. It was amazing because when we though about hip hop fashion, people usually thought about shirt, pants, sneakers, etc. not scarf. When he brought up the scarf, I was surprised. :) Other presentations were good and gave us a lot of information.
Yes, I agree Quyen, Mike's scarf was a unique touch. Hip hop is certainly about being original :-)
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