DANC 027. Hip Hop: Dancing Diaspora from the Local to the Global

This course focuses on hip hop as a dance form, from its origins in the South Bronx to its current status as a global phenomenon. It will explore hip hop culture in the broader framework of the African diaspora, as a way to envision worldwide connections among people and cultures of African descent, while also considering extensions of hip hop into other dance forms, such as house and voguing, foregrounding questions of gender and sexuality. Key theorists such as Joseph Schloss, Imani Kai Johnson, and Thomas DeFrantz will be discussed. The goal of this course is two-fold: (1) to understand how dance practices are bodily enactments of specific historical, cultural and political developments and (2) to investigate different approaches to writing about their significance to develop critical perspectives as thinkers and dancers.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Dance
Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program

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