Prep
- Alex Gale, The Oral History of “Wild Style”, Complex (2013). Note: I advise watching the movie to the end before reading this.
- Video: Wild Style (Charlie Ahearn, 1982), cont’d
This is actually our agenda from last class, but we only got about halfway through the movie. Let’s slow ourselves down and give ourselves a chance to dwell on this movie and its significance.
In Class
- Attendance
- Video: Wild Style (Charlie Ahearn, 1982), cont’d
- Q&A: The Truths of Fiction
- Reading Notes for Next Time
- Nelson George, ‘Hip-Hop’s Founding Fathers Speak the Truth’, in Forman and Neal (2012); also available in Forman and Neal (2004)
- Video: Founding Fathers: The Untold Story of Hip-Hop (Ron Lawrence and Hassan Pore, 2014?)
