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Hip-hop in Popular Culture (THR 380)
Posted on August 27, 2009 - 3:19pm — notorious
This course will explore Hip-hop's impact on American Popular culture. We will study the four elements that constitute Hip-hop culture, Emceeing, DJing, Breaking and Graffiti and how these elements have shaped popular culture since Hip-hop's inception in the 1970s. Exploring Hip-hop inspired works in theater, film, television, performance art, fine art, dance and fashion we will engage the larger cultural, social, economic and political histories that produce Hip-hop culture. The course frames these discussions within larger theoretical and popular debates about Hip-hop music's impact on race, ethnicity and gender and their representation in American popular culture.
About Nicole Hodges Persley
Nicole Hodges Persley is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of Kansas. She completed her Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity at The University of Southern California in 2009. Her dissertation, "Sampling Blackness: Performing African Americanness in Hip-hop Theater and Performance" is the first study to examine the impact of African American racial and cultural identity on the artistic practices of non-African American artists in theater, conceptual art and dance. Her research and teaching interests include: African American Theater and Performance; Hip-hop Studies; African Diaspora Theater; Solo Performance; Popular Culture; Performance Studies, and Improvisation Theory. Hodges Persley currently teaches courses in Acting, Hip-hop in Popular Culture and African American Theater. She has received numerous fellowships and awards including a James Irvine Foundation Fellowship and an undergraduate teaching and mentoring award from the Mellon Foundation. As an actress and director, Hodges Persley has professional credits in theatre, film and television. Her current book project is an comparative study on the performance practices of Hip-hop Theater and Performance artists in the United States, England and France.
Syllabus - Hip-hop in Popular Culture
The University of Kansas
Hiphop
Hiphop Inclusive
Semester:
Fall
2009
About Nicole Hodges Persley
Nicole Hodges Persley is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of Kansas. She completed her Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity at The University of Southern California in 2009. Her dissertation, "Sampling Blackness: Performing African Americanness in Hip-hop Theater and Performance" is the first study to examine the impact of African American racial and cultural identity on the artistic practices of non-African American artists in theater, conceptual art and dance. Her research and teaching interests include: African American Theater and Performance; Hip-hop Studies; African Diaspora Theater; Solo Performance; Popular Culture; Performance Studies, and Improvisation Theory. Hodges Persley currently teaches courses in Acting, Hip-hop in Popular Culture and African American Theater. She has received numerous fellowships and awards including a James Irvine Foundation Fellowship and an undergraduate teaching and mentoring award from the Mellon Foundation. As an actress and director, Hodges Persley has professional credits in theatre, film and television. Her current book project is an comparative study on the performance practices of Hip-hop Theater and Performance artists in the United States, England and France.
Syllabus - Hip-hop in Popular Culture
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