For Thursday, 10/1

• Review Wesley Morris, ‘For centuries, black music, forged in bondage, has been the sound of complete artistic freedom. No wonder everybody is always stealing it’, New York Times (14 August 2019)
• Gilbert B. Rodman, ‘Race … and Other Four-Letter Words: Eminem and the Cultural Politics of Authenticity’, in Forman and Neal (2012)

Zoom Session

1. Prelude: Yacht Rock’s Heart of Darkness
2. Introduction to hypothes.is
3. Keywords: authenticity, discourse of; cultural appropriation; cultural miscegenation; reverent borrowing
4. For Next Time

For Next Time 

• Usama Kahf, ‘Arabic Hip-Hop: Claims of Authenticity and Identity of a New Genre’, in Forman and Neal (2012)