Readings

WEEK # TOPICS Culture and Globalization 1 Lecture: Introduction to Culture and Globalization/Goals of the Course

READINGS

Film: First Contact (in Class, 55 min.) and Discussion.

Greider, William. "The Real Cancun: WTO Heads Nowhere." In The Nation. Sept. 22, 2003. pp. 11-20. Diamond, Jared. "Preface: Why is World History Like an Onion?" In Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel. W.W. Norton & Company, 1999, pp. 9-11. . "Prologue: Yali's Question." In Guns, Germs, and Steel. pp. 13-32. . "Collision at Cajamarca." Chapter 3 in Guns,Germs, and Steel, pp. 67-81. . "Hemisphere's Colliding." Chapter 18 in Guns,Germs, and Steel. pp. 354-375. Beynon, John, and David Dunkerley. "General Introduction." In Globalization: The Reader.NY: Routledge, 2000. Film: Trobriand Cricket (50 min.) and Discussion. Cultural Activism and Minority Claims "Introduction." In Ginsburg, Faye, Lila Abu-Lughod and Brian Larkin, Editors. Media Worlds.University of California Press, 2002.

A Pre-History of Globalization: Guns, Germs, and Steel

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READINGS Ginsburg, Faye. "Screen Memories." In Media Worlds. Turner, Terrence. "Representation, Politics, and Cultural Imagination in Indigenous Video." In Media Worlds. McLagan, Meg. "Spectacles of Difference." In Media Worlds. Film: Kayapo: Out of the Forest. Eshun, Kodwo. "Sampladelia of the Breakbeat." In More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction. London: Quartet Books Ltd., 1998. pp. 25-61. George, Nelson. "Capitalist Tool." In Hip-Hop America. NY: Penguin, 1998. Mitchell, Tony. "Introduction: Another Root-Hip-Hop Outside USA." In Global Noise. Wesleyan University Press, 2002. Urla, Jacqueline. "We Are All Malcolm X." In Global Noise. (Basque in Spain) Film: Scratch Condry, Ian. "Introduction." Chapter 1 in Japanese HipHop (forthcoming) (Book Manuscript) (PDF) . "Race: Black Culture, Yellow B-Boys and the Elvis Effect." Chapter 2 in Japanese Hip-Hop.

Hip-Hop as Cultural Movement

Hip-Hop in Japan

. "Genba: Locating the Power of Popular Music ." Chapter 3 in Japanese Hip-Hop. . "A History of Japanese Rap Music: Street Dance, Club Music, Pop Market." In Global Noise. Mitchell, Tony. "Fightin' the Faida" In Global Noise. pp. 194.

Hip-Hop in Europe and the Islamic Connection

Prevos, Andre J. M. "Postcolonial Popular Music in France." In Global Noise. pp. 39 - 56.

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READINGS Swedenburg, Ted. "Islamic Hip-Hop and Islamophobia." In Global Noise. pp. 57-85. Hesmondalgh and Melville. "Urban Breakbeat Culture." In Global Noise. pp. 86-110. Pennay, Mark. "Rap in Germany." In Global Noise. Or, if no Presentation, Film: La Haine (Hate). Morelli, Sarah. "Who is Dancing Hero." In Global Noise. (Korea)

Lessons from Hip-Hop

Maxwell, Ian. "Sydney Stylee." In Global Noise. (Australia) Mitchell, Tony. "Kia Kaha! (Be Strong)." In Global Noise. (Aotearoa-New Zealand) Film: Documentary About International Hip-Hop. Gladwell, Malcolm. "The Coolhunters." In New Yorker Magazine. March 17, 1997. Shakar, Alex. The Savage Girl. Perennial Publishers, 2002. Davila, Arlene. "Culture in the Ad World: Producing the Latin Look." In Media Worlds. Film in Class: The Merchants of Cool. (PBS Frontline on Trend Spotters) Klein, Naomi. "Introduction." In No Logo. Picador USA, 1999, pp. xiii-xxi.

Coolhunters: Who's Got it?

No Logo

. "New Branded World." Chapter 1 in No Logo. . "A Tale of Three Logos: The Swoosh, the Shell, the Arches Conclusion, Consumerism versus Citizenship." Chapter 16 in No Logo.

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READINGS Film in Class: Black, S. Life and Debt. (About Sweatshops in Jamaica.) Jenkins, Henry. "Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars? Digital Cinema, Media Convergence, and Participatory Culture." In Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics of Transition.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. Vaidhyanathan, Siva. "The Anarchist in the Library." 2002. An introduction to his argument about the cultural politics of P2P networks. (View cybercastof U.S. Library of Congress Luminary Lecuter by Dr. Vaidhyanathan on this article.) Condry. "The Digital Revolution in Music." (Forthcoming) Selections from Billboard Magazine (Trade Magazine for Record Co.s) Film: Excerpts from Sonic Outlaws. Abu-Lughod, Lila. "Egyptian Melodrama." In Media Worlds. Mankekar, Purnima. "Epic Contests." In Media Worlds. (India) Wilk, Richard. "Television, Time, and National Imaginary." In Media Worlds. (Belize) Mandel, Ruth. "Marshall Plan of the Mind." In Media Worlds. (Kazakhstan)

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"Music Wants to be Free": MP3, P2P - Anarchy or Activism?

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Television Nations

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Transnational Media

Schein, Louisa. "Mapping Hmong Media..." In Media Worlds. Ganti, Tejaswini. "And Yet My Heart is Still Indian." In Media Worlds.

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READINGS Iwabuchi, Koichi. "Becoming Culturally Proximate: Japanese TV Dramas in Taiwan." Chapter 4 in Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. pp. 121-157. Film (Tentative): The Japanese Version. Web Sites or Supplementary Material Based on Student Presentations and the Question for the In-class Discussion In Class Discussion: What is the Future of Global Cultural Politics?

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Globalization as the End of Culture?

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Conclusions and the Future of Globalization