Courses:
Session I
AFR
229 - Rap
Music and the African American Poetical Tradition
Selwyn Cudjoe, Professor of Africana
Studies and Sociology
This course examines the African American poetical tradition from
its roots in African oral literature to its contemporaneous manifestation
in rapping, a showcase for African American braggadocio, and the
art of verbal dexterity and storytelling. The connection of this
literary tradition with American cultural values will also be explored.
The course will examine the works of Phyllis Wheatley, Langston Hughes,
James Weldon Johnson, Melvin Tolson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden,
Derek Walcott, Gill Scott-Heron, the Last Poets, NIkki Giovanni,
Public Enemy, Run-D.M.C., Tupac, and other artists.
Credit 1.0
Course Fee $2000
Lectures: M,W,TH 1:20 - 4:00
Location: Green Hall 330
Selwyn R. Cudjoe is a Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley
College where he teaches courses on the African-American Literary
Tradition, African Literature, Black Women Writers, and Caribbean
literature. His most recent course is entitled "Caribbean Intellectual
Thought." He is also a visiting scholar at the Afro-American
Studies Department at Harvard University.
A graduate of Fordham University where he received both a B.A. in
English (1969) and an M.A. in American Literature (1972), Professor
Cudjoe earned a Ph.D. in American Literature from Cornell University
(1976). Prior to joining the Wellesley faculty in 1986, he taught
at Ithaca College, Cornell, Harvard, Brandeis, Fordham, and Ohio
universities. He has been a lecturer at Auburn (N.Y.) State Prison
and taught at Bedford-Stuyvesant (N.Y.) Youth-In-Action.
A producer and host of television programs for Trinidad and Tobago
Television, he wrote the documentary, Tacarigua: A Village in Trinidad,
produced by Cornell University. He recently completed a second documentary
that focused on women writers of the Caribbean. It premiered at Wellesley
College in April 1994
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