HIST-351: Africa's Cultures of Resistance

HIST-351: Africa's Cultures of Resistance

The text focuses on a History course offered as part of the 2019-2020 course catalog and as an elective to the AAAS minor. The course is a 300-level History course. The course focuses on the various mediums in African culture that continue to act as a means of resistance. Special attention is put on music. This course is taught by Dr. Onaci.

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Ursinus College Africa's Cultire of Resistance Course

This course studies the histories of musical cultures and industries in Africa during an age of advancing communications networks and the seemingly ever-increasing democratization of technology. It analyzes cultural trends, such as the development of High Life and Afropop, in the context of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid movements. It also explores how processes like the evolution of global hip-hop culture and the rise of the internet helped fortify bridges between historically oppressed peoples within and across national and continental boundaries. We will get to know individual people and will recognize those people, as well as regional sounds like HipLife and Bongo Flava, as central agents in African and global history. With the concept of ubuntu as our guide, we will deepen our conscious participation in global pop. Three hours per week.Four semester hours. (H, GN.)
Note: Students who have completed HIST-367 may not register for HIST-351.

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