DAH255 - Hip Hop: Arts, Aesthetic and Culture

The purpose of the this guide is to support students taking DAH255 - Hip Hop: Arts, Aesthetic and Culture class.

"Hip hop dance itself is cool, rowdy, defiant, sexy, athletic, smooth, creative. It is also full of meaning—meaning that kind of meaning attributable to ethnographic and cultural contexts. Meanings metabolize in the distribution channel and at points of consumption, when the dance is codified and made into a commodity, used as a medium of value-" - Rap Music and Culture: Hip-Hop Dance Is a Significant American Art Form.