Month: September 2007

Texts
Recommended books:
–   Kraidy. Marwan. 2006. Hybridity, or The Cultural Logic of Globalization. Philadelphia: Temple University Press

–   Nederveen Pieterse, J. 2004. Globalization and Culture: Global Mélange. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
The key chapters from these books will be made available as pdfs, but they’re compact and will have lasting value (especially Pieterse) so it’s worth buying them.

Articles and selected chapters (on Blackboard, list subject to change):
–    Fredric Jameson. 1998. The Cultural Turn: Selected writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998. London: Verso.
–    David Harvey. 1990. The Condition of Postmodernity. Oxford: Blackwell.
–    Seyla Benhabib. 2002. The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era. Princeton University Press.
–    Nestor Garcia Canclini. 1995. Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity. Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press.
–    Nelson George. 2005. Hip Hop America. New York: ??.
–    Koichi Iwabuchi. 2002. Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
–    Christopher Dunn. 2001. Brutality Garden: Tropicalia and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
–    Caetano Veloso. 2002. (trans. De Sena, I). Tropical Truth: A Story of Music & Revolution in Brazil. New York: Da Capo Press.
–    George Yudice. 2004. The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era. Durham: Duke University Press.
–    Richard Florida. 2005. The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent. New York: Collins.
–    Sam Howard-Spink. 2004. “Grey Tuesday, online cultural activism and the mash-up of music and politics.” First Monday, volume 9, number 10 (October).
–    Kembrew McLeod. 2007. Freedom of Expression: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property. Minnesota: University Of Minnesota Press.
–    Henry Jenkins. 2006. Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. New York: NYU Press.
–    Yochai Benkler. 2006. The Wealth of Networks. How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Week1: 9/6    Introduction to Course
Themes and concepts; class and assignment logistics.
Discussion: What do the terms ‘globalization,’ ‘culture’ and ‘hybridity’ mean to you?
Readings: Williams, Macey

Week2: 9/13    Culture, Modernity and Postmodernity
Readings: Jameson, Harvey.

Week3: 9/20    Uses and Abuses of Culture in Models of globalization
Readings: Benhabib; Petierse; Kraidy chapters 1, 2.
(BB discussion I contribution due by end of 9/19)

Week4: 9/27     Paths of Hybridity.
Readings: Stoss; Kraidy chapter 3; Canclini

Week5: 10/4    A New Path: Globalization as/is Hybridization
Readings: Pieterse, Kraidy chapter 4
(BB discussion II contribution due by end of 10/3)

Week6: 10/11    Hybrid media texts – Made in America?
Readings: Kraidy chapter 5; George.

Week7: 10/18    Japan, Asia and “soft power”
Readings: Iwabuchi, tba
(BB discussion III contribution due by end of 10/17)

Week8: 10/25    Latin America – Brazil Part 1
Readings: Dunn, Veloso, Vianna

Week9: 11/1    Latin America – Brazil Part 2
Readings: Yudice, Howard-Spink
(BB discussion IV contribution due by end of 10/31)

Week10: 11/8        The Political Economy of Global Hybridization, Part 1
Readings: Yudice, Florida, Castells

Week11: 11/15     The Changing Political Economies of Music
Readings: Howard-Spink, McLeod
(BB discussion V contribution due by end of 11/14)

Week12: 11/22    NO CLASS – THANKSGIVING

Week13: 11/29    Participatory Culture
Readings: Jenkins, Benkler, Balkin
Class presentations

Week14: 12/6     Refining the Hybridity Theory
Readings: Kraidy, Nederveen Peiterse, Kellner
Class presentations

Week15: 12/13    Spillover, wrap-up.
Class presentations
FINAL PAPER DUE