Week 5 (Feb 1-5) - Transnational migrations and diaspora musics
Tuesday 2 : Lecture & class discussion
Assigned reading:
Gross, Joan, David McMurray and Ted Swedenburg. “Arab Noise and Ramadan Nights: Rai, Rap and Franco-Maghrebi Identities.” Diaspora, 3/1, 1994, pp. 3-39.
YouTube links for this class:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7trJTujKv8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8hBUh2lnXY
Thursday 4: Lecture & class discussion
Assigned reading:
Naficy, Hamid. “Identity Politics and Iranian Exile Music Videos.” In Richard Young (ed.) Music, Popular Culture, Identities. Amsterdam / New York: Rodopi, 2002, pp. 249-267.
YouTube links for this class:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p6Nm9_0boQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6X225ntqSA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjuUzVYM5hI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nSOEJ-KD1E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ih-UB-XyhA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtnieEupKco
Additional reading:
Swedenburg, Ted. “Islamic hip-hop vs. Islamophobia: Aki Nawaz, Natacha Atlas, Akhenaton,” in Mitchell, Tony (ed.) Global Noise: rap and Hip-Hop outside the USA. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2002.
