ENGD13H3: Rap Poetics

An intensive study of rhetoric, genre, meaning, and form in rap lyrics. The three-decade-plus recorded history of this popular poetry will be discussed in rough chronological order. Aspects of African-American poetics, as well as folk and popular song, germane to the development of rap will be considered, as will narrative and vernacular strategies in lyric more generally; poetry's role in responding to personal need and to social reality will also prove relevant.

1.0 credit at the C- level in ENG courses
(ENGC73H3), (ENGD63H3)
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Arts, Literature and Language