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assign3.docx1. Choose one or more hip-hop activities that are being practiced in your community, and following the model of "Style Wars", go out and learn a little more about them. Please try to interview participants in the activity, and if possible, attend a show or activity. You may also shape your project around a hip-hop activity that you yourself practice if you are involved in hip-hop in that way.
2. As you're preparing your ethnography, make sure to get good accurate information about the individuals associated with the activity and that you document the activity with good detailed notes, images, and/or video.
3. If it is absolutely impossible for you to visit a live organization or event, you may go to a community-based hip-hop web site instead. Please let me know if you are having difficulty making contacts or visiting the event, as I might be able to suggest ways to guide you.
4. As with the Mixtape project, you are welcome to prepare your ethnography in a format of your choice, such as (but not limited to) a series of short original songs, poems or narrative writings, video, graffiti-inspired art pieces, or a written essay. Written projects should be about 1,000-1,500 words in length; song, spoken word poetry collections, or video pieces should be about 10-15 minutes long; and graffiti inspired art pieces should contain 7-10 images, each accompanied by explanatory text.
Over this semester, I have asked you reflect on your learning, considering how our work in this course has helped you define personal goals, consider key concepts and values, and gauge your learning in relation to the course learning outcomes. I would like you to help me learn in this final journal. Please tell me how well the course met its stated outcomes. In doing so, identify the key strengths of the course, suggest possible additions or areas of improvements, and share any particular insights you would like me to know.
Once again, just to remind you, the learning outcomes for our course are:
1. To gain an understanding of the historical origins of hip-hop and its development in the United States.
2. To examine the societal, political, and economic impacts of hip-hop culture as rooted in its five foundational elements: b-boying/b-girling, deejaying, emceeing, graffiti, and self-growth through knowledge and awareness.
3. To apply the understanding of the historical, societal, political, cultural, and economic impacts of hip-hop to the creation of written, aural, visual, and/or kinesthetic projects representative of the five elements of hip-hop.
4. To participate in collective learning activities that model the community building activities of hip-hop.
5. To articulate understandings of hip-hop philosophy through engagement, analysis, and/or critique of other scholars' intellectual and artistic work.
6. To explore the grassroots operations of hip-hop in their own or nearby communities.
