Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours; listening, 2 hours per week
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Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor
Description: Introduces hip hop culture from its origins to its contemporary global spread. Focuses particularly on rap music, addressing themes evoked in hip hop practice, particularly regionalism, feminism, gender identity, racialization, and globalization.