“Global Hip-Hop in A Connective Marginality World”
Fri, Jan 20
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Time & Location
Jan 20, 2023, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM EST
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About the event
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
respective societies. These local connections I call “connective marginalities” presenting social
inequalities forming links for “underground” networks of hip-hop communities. Both of these levels---
U.S. popular culture dominance and underground connections between artist---are responsible for hip-
hop’s global circulation. The entire system is based in the youth culture’s Africanist aesthetic, an
extension of long-time Black artistic expressions. This brief course will concentrate on the connective
marginality of hip-hop’s internationalism, exploring the multidimensions of common social
marginalities in various international sites, and how they affect hip-hop dance and its representation
globally.
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