MUSC119

Description

Section information text: Our identities come from our lived experiences. As hip hop is the expression of lived experience,it is also the expression of individual and shared identities. In this class, students will explorehow hip hop, an art form originally from the Bronx, NY c. 1970, shapes and depicts varioussocial identities. We will investigate how hip hop gives voice to an individual's race, religion,ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. We will also question how a hip-hop artist's self-expressionintersects and merges with the identities of their listeners. A community-based learning projectwill allow students to both learn about and participate in their local hip hop scene of Worcester.