Texts
\nRecommended books:
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 Kraidy. Marwan. 2006. Hybridity, or The Cultural Logic of Globalization. Philadelphia: Temple University Press<\/p>\n
–\u00a0\u00a0 Nederveen Pieterse, J. 2004. Globalization and Culture: Global M\u00e9lange. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
\nThe key chapters from these books will be made available as pdfs, but they\u2019re compact and will have lasting value (especially Pieterse) so it\u2019s worth buying them.<\/p>\n
Articles and selected chapters (on Blackboard, list subject to change):
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fredric Jameson. 1998. The Cultural Turn: Selected writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998. London: Verso.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 David Harvey. 1990. The Condition of Postmodernity. Oxford: Blackwell.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Seyla Benhabib. 2002. The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era. Princeton University Press.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nestor Garcia Canclini. 1995. Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity. Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nelson George. 2005. Hip Hop America. New York: ??.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Koichi Iwabuchi. 2002. Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Christopher Dunn. 2001. Brutality Garden: Tropicalia and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Caetano Veloso. 2002. (trans. De Sena, I). Tropical Truth: A Story of Music & Revolution in Brazil. New York: Da Capo Press.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 George Yudice. 2004. The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era. Durham: Duke University Press.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Richard Florida. 2005. The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent. New York: Collins.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sam Howard-Spink. 2004. \u201cGrey Tuesday, online cultural activism and the mash-up of music and politics.\u201d First Monday, volume 9, number 10 (October).
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kembrew McLeod. 2007. Freedom of Expression: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property. Minnesota: University Of Minnesota Press.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Henry Jenkins. 2006. Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. New York: NYU Press.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yochai Benkler. 2006. The Wealth of Networks. How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven: Yale University Press.<\/p>\n
Week1: 9\/6\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Introduction to Course
\nThemes and concepts; class and assignment logistics.
\nDiscussion: What do the terms \u2018globalization,\u2019 \u2018culture\u2019 and \u2018hybridity\u2019 mean to you?
\nReadings: Williams, Macey<\/p>\n
Week2: 9\/13\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Culture, Modernity and Postmodernity
\nReadings: Jameson, Harvey.<\/p>\n
Week3: 9\/20\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Uses and Abuses of Culture in Models of globalization
\nReadings: Benhabib; Petierse; Kraidy chapters 1, 2.
\n(BB discussion I contribution due by end of 9\/19)<\/p>\n
Week4: 9\/27 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paths of Hybridity.
\nReadings: Stoss; Kraidy chapter 3; Canclini<\/p>\n
Week5: 10\/4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A New Path: Globalization as\/is Hybridization
\nReadings: Pieterse, Kraidy chapter 4
\n(BB discussion II contribution due by end of 10\/3)<\/p>\n
Week6: 10\/11\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hybrid media texts \u2013 Made in America?
\nReadings: Kraidy chapter 5; George.<\/p>\n
Week7: 10\/18\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Japan, Asia and \u201csoft power\u201d
\nReadings: Iwabuchi, tba
\n(BB discussion III contribution due by end of 10\/17)<\/p>\n
Week8: 10\/25\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Latin America \u2013 Brazil Part 1
\nReadings: Dunn, Veloso, Vianna<\/p>\n
Week9: 11\/1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Latin America \u2013 Brazil Part 2
\nReadings: Yudice, Howard-Spink
\n(BB discussion IV contribution due by end of 10\/31)<\/p>\n
Week10: 11\/8\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Political Economy of Global Hybridization, Part 1
\nReadings: Yudice, Florida, Castells<\/p>\n
Week11: 11\/15 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Changing Political Economies of Music
\nReadings: Howard-Spink, McLeod
\n(BB discussion V contribution due by end of 11\/14)<\/p>\n
Week12: 11\/22\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NO CLASS \u2013 THANKSGIVING<\/p>\n
Week13: 11\/29\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Participatory Culture
\nReadings: Jenkins, Benkler, Balkin
\nClass presentations<\/p>\n
Week14: 12\/6 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Refining the Hybridity Theory
\nReadings: Kraidy, Nederveen Peiterse, Kellner
\nClass presentations<\/p>\n
Week15: 12\/13\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Spillover, wrap-up.
\nClass presentations
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