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.

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeP-bJFg1bQ