![]() ![]() “My work within both the academic and hip-hop community gives me the opportunity to provide students with hands-on learning that highlights hip-hop as a lived experience. ![]() “Many institutions of higher education ask for hip-hop to fit into the mold of academic culture but Columbia allows itself to transform through the pedagogies, philosophies, and practices of hip-hop culture,” said Kelsa Robinson, Dance Center lecturer, B-Series co-curator, and Venus Fly member. ![]() The college often creates opportunities to celebrate hip-hop culture, such as the community-oriented hip-hop and street dance bi-annual festival, The B-Series. Hip-hop has thrived at Columbia for many years through the student body, and faculty who are established practitioners. Much of Chicago hip-hop is deeply entrenched in the city’s socio-economic and political realities-which influence the socially-conscious work of Chance the Rapper, Rhymefest and Lupe Fiasco, as well as Kanye West, Common, and Twista. Chicago hip-hop adopts East Coast, West Coast, and Southern styles while adding its own, like double-time rap and footwork. We are very pleased to offer a minor that is distinctly tied to Chicago’s hip-hop community, and which incorporates the Chicago aesthetic into the global hip-hop movement.”Īccording to Chicago hip-hop artists and practitioners, hip-hop culture has its own powerful and successful system of education, where knowledge is practiced, studied, and passed down. “The lineage and evolution of hip-hop is so influential that it has become essential for communities and cities to engage with its modes of expression, style, and values. “Hip-hop is a powerful, multi-generational, international cultural force,” said School of Fine and Performing Arts Dean Onye Ozuzu. The minor also aims to dispel long-standing notions about hip-hop, by encouraging dialogue around cultural appropriation and resistance, race, gender, class, and social justice. The elements of hip-hop are interwoven through courses such as: “Hip-Hop: A Sonic History,” “Hip-Hop Dance Technique,” “Digital Music Production,” and “Club DJ Turntablism and Hip-Hop Performance.” Additionally, the curriculum connects individual creative practice to that of local artists and practitioners, and those in the entertainment industry, all of whom have been credited for shaping hip-hop as a modern global tradition rooted in afro-diaspora culture. 2, a special launch event, The Fresh Connect, will celebrate the hip-hop community at Columbia with interactive performances, live graffiti art, and more.Ĭolumbia’s new minor is distinctive in academia, combining history and theory, interdisciplinary practice-based learning, and collaboration with Chicago’s hip-hop communities. 29, 2017)-Columbia College Chicago launched a new interdisciplinary Hip-Hop Studies minor in Fall 2017 to offer practice-based learning around the history and aesthetics of hip-hop culture, and to connect students with Chicago’s vibrant community of hip-hop artists and practitioners. Humanities, History and Social SciencesĬollege’s distinctive, practice-based hip-hop curriculum encompasses pedagogy, history, performance, and community engagementĬHICAGO (Nov. ![]()
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