“Global Hip-Hop in A Connective Marginality World”

This two-day course explores the effect of hip-hop culture globally, particularly in the all-pervasive

dance genres of breaking, popping, locking, house, and the continuing variations in street cyphers and

dance studios. There are two major reasons for hip-hop culture’s proliferation throughout the world: 1)

the global centrality of American popular culture, in general, through the transnational pop culture

industry of record companies, Hollywood films, and entertainment conglomerates, and 2) the on-the-

ground connections between hip-hop heads who often experience similar marginal status in their