Theater and Dance 250: Hip Hop Culture

Credits 3
Credit Type
Semester Offered
Spring
Faculty
de Grasse

Hip Hop Culture is taught from a dance perspective, and includes the context of West Coast street styles and their concomitant sub-cultures, including Popping, Animation, Krump, C-walk, and others.  The course covers some basics of U.S. History/African American U.S. History, focusing on sharecropping and the Great Migration, as well as on conditions which contributed to the formation of “ghettos” in The South Bronx of New York City, and the Watts and Compton neighborhoods of Los Angeles.  The course traces Hip Hop culture to African-diasporic traditions, practices, and forms which persisted throughout that history.  Students will engage with the contemporary expression of those traditions and practices in the contrasting landscapes of Hip Hop culture and Hip Hop cultural production. 

Distribution Area
Students entering Fall 2024 or later: Creative Production (CPROD)
Students entering Fall 2024 or later: Power and Equity (PEQ)
Students entering prior to Fall 2024: Cultural Pluralism (CP DIST)
Students entering prior to Fall 2024: Fine Arts (FI DIST)
Students entering prior to Fall 2024: Humanities (HU DIST)
Corequisites

Theater and Dance 251, if offered.