Course Details
Course offered Spring 2016
HONORS 394 A: Hip Hop Archiving in the Pacific NW (A&H / SSc, DIV)
HONORS 394 A: Hip Hop Archiving in the Pacific NW (A&H / SSc, DIV)
SLN 14944 (View UW registration info »)
Office: Suzzallo Library 370A, Box 352900
Phone: 206 616-1210
Email: vallier@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 30 students
Questions that drive this course include: What is Puget Sound Hip Hop? Is it important and, if so, why and for whom? How does contemporary Puget Sound Hip Hop interface with Seattle’s legacy of racial segregation? How has Puget Sound Hip Hop challenged inequalities and how has it been co-opted to support inequality? What does it mean to archive Hip Hop? What power differentials are at play when building an academic archive of a community’s expressive culture? How is UW perceived among Seattle’s Hip Hop communities?