COMM 227 - Rhetoric of Hip Hop and Rap

3 Credit(s)

Marcyliena Morgan (2016) writes, “Hip-hop earned its place as a new lingua franca of global youth because it focused on language as culture, science, practice, art, disguise, play and power.” This course Rhetoric of Hip Hop and Rap is designed as a seminar that allows for the theorizing of this impactful and popular genre, exploring the social, societal, political, cultural and personal impact of its messages and messaging, as well as problematizing the ways in which Hip Hop and Rap have been received, discussed, marked, and labeled.