Hip-hop culture has impregnated society crack, and university courses are no exception. Georgia Tech has a new course for its 2017 spring semester entitled “Exploration of Outkast and Trap Music’s words to explore the social justice policy. “
The teacher is Dr. Joycellyn Wilson, a head of the Atlanta Hip-Hop scholarship who studied ethnographic studies in Harvard and Virginia Tech. He is also manufacturer of documentaries nominated in the Emmy Awards to walk with firearms, and seems in the documentary VH1 The Untold Story of Atlanta in the RAP game.
The academic program to examine the sound of trap music and the evolution of evolution over the years. Elegance will deal with the wonderful artists of Atlanta Old and Young, as well as with the legends that are not from ATL, particularly Tupac Shakur, Public Enemy and Lauryn Hill.
A main detail of the course will also fear “Outkast’s imagination”, an issue that Dr. Wilson points out in a previous Ted talk with the youtube type authorization.
Dr. Wilson tells Hiphopdx: “My students are specializations in engineering, economy, public policies, media and communications, and biomedical sciences. All have a sensitivity towards hip hop and a special affinity for trap music. I have a math title, so I can and Georgia’s experiences in Georgia’s technology while trying to make sense what happens around them culturally.
She continues: “They are the next generation of Stem leaders. I hope they can take those basic principles and basic truths and apply them to their life in operation after obtaining the diploma. This is the global objective, the purpose and the course of the course. Hip-hop is the metaphor we use. To paint with them.
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