ClassInfo - Fall 2018 Cultural Stdy/Comparative Lit Classes

Fall 2018 | CSCL 3353 Section 001: Contemporary Sub-Saharan African Popular Art Forms (35186)

Instructor(s): Njeri Githire
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: A-F only
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Meets With:: AFRO 3578 Section 001
ARTH 3578 Section 001
GLOS 3978 Section 001
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018

Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM

UMTC, East Bank

Blegen Hall 425
Enrollment Status:: Open (0 of 5 seats filled)

Course Catalog Description:: This course explores contemporary sub-Saharan African popular cinema, popular music, community theatre, street arts, bus slogans, comic books, graphic art, social media, fashion, sports, and other forms of popular communication as signifiers of larger social, political, and economic processes. It examines popular cultural forms as constantly evolving expressions of social, political, and personal identities in an ever globalized and interconnected world. As sites where the tensions, frictions, collisions and notably, the productive creativities of the local and the global are circulated, negotiated, and contested, African popular cultures provide insights into a unique and increasingly crucial facet of contemporary African artistic practice as critical intervention. Indeed, in their function as channels of communication generated within local cultures as reactions to transnational phenomena and dynamics, African popular forms offer timely perspectives on questions of cultural resurgence, global power relations and their underpinning national, ethnic and gender implications. Through our discussion of art and gender, for instance, we will examine the ways in which art in Africa was/is used to empower women.
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