ClassInfo - Spring 2019 Cultural Stdy/Comparative Lit Classes

Spring 2019 | CSCL 3353 Section 001: Contemporary Sub-Saharan African Popular Art Forms (68501)

Instructor(s): No instructor assigned
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: A-F only
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

UMTC, East Bank
Enrollment Status:: Closed (0 of 0 seats filled)

Course Catalog Description:: According to the US Population Reference Bureau, Africans will represent 21% of the world population in 2050, a higher percentage than Chinese or Indians. Other research and data agencies credit contemporary African societies with among the fastest rates of urban expansion in the world. Such stupendous demographic surge and breakneck acceleration of urban growth have engendered intense dislocation and cultural upheaval in populations caught between two competing narratives of social change: one of celebration; the other of crisis. This course explores contemporary sub-Saharan African popular cinema, popular music, TV/radio series, bus slogans, community theatre, graphic narratives, 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. Through our discussion of art and gender, we will examine the gendering of specific popular forms, their role in hegemonic formations, as well as their subversion in resistant practices and discourses.
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