Hip Hop: Skill, Style, Science
Hip
Hop: Skill, Style, Science—Evan Rapport.
This course explores hip hop aesthetics, techniques, and history by focusing
on the music and discourse of those who are engaged in hip hop culture,
including (but not limited to) emceeing, deejaying, graffiti writing, and
breaking. The focus of the course is on
elements of musical style, such as rhythm, form, stress and rhyme patterns, and
sampling. Other topics include politics,
issues of authenticity, and the connections between hip hop and African
diasporic practices. The course offers
opportunities for performance and composition. Familiarity with Western music notation is not
required. 3 credits MW 2-3:30
