SOAN 248 - Producing Culture from the Margins

Crosslisted With POV 248
FDR: Social Sciences (SS4)
Credits: 3

How does cultural-historical understanding of artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Ludwig van Beethoven inform how we categorize and evaluate artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat or Kendrick Lamar? This course will examine the creation of cultural objects (music, visual art, literature, film/television), with particular attention to representations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and the various intersections of marginality in the contemporary world. Drawing from the relevant literature in sociology, philosophical aesthetics, and cultural studies, we will look at how the production of contemporary culture perpetuates and challenges social inequality.