May 13, 2024  
2023-2024 Catalogue 
    
2023-2024 Catalogue

AFST 24600 - Africana Popular Culture

Course Credit: 1
(COMS)
AFRICANA POPULAR CULTURE: Course surveys the genres, media, conceptual dynamics and cultural consequences of popular culture of the Africana world. Examining music, religion, sports and graphic art, the course will investigate the historicity, aesthetics and social-political impact of these fields on Africana communities. Forms will be analyzed as vehicles for personal and public critique and transformation. Prerequisite(s): AFST-10000, or permission of the instructor [AH]