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OPDI-M25: Hip-Hop: History and Heritage
August 04, 2025 - September 14, 2025
Shaped by sociocultural and sociopolitical circumstances in the 1970s and developed during economic struggles and environmental turmoil, hip-hop gave voices to the restless and tumultuous inner-city youth. Its roots are found in the social fabric of African and Afro-Diasporic concepts of communication that have re-inventions in ragtime, jazz, blues, rhythm and blues, rock ‘n’ roll, funk, and soul which culminated in hip-hop. This course will help students understand hip-hop vocabulary, terminology, and fundamentals as well as gain a contextual and historical overview of hip-hop dance and culture; its recurring cultural modes of discourse and discursive practices present in black vernacular / social dance, and its intersecting economic, political, and social dynamics of race, gender, sexuality, and class.
Participants will engage in reflection, choreographic explorations, and written dialogue with classmates which will illuminate their personal, social and cultural dynamics of ethnic diversity. Additional course components include reading, video viewing and analysis, and writing assignments that allow students to focus their understanding of hip-hop dance.
Professor Durden will host a live (OPTIONAL) weekly Q&A Zoom discussion with the class weekly in lieu of written feedback to each student. He will be on hand to answer your questions and provide additional insight into the weekly topics. These sessions will be recorded for those that cannot attend the Live session.
Due to the unique nature of this course, all students (including those auditing) are encouraged to fully participate in this course as peer-to-peer written feedback is a critical component of the Discussion Board posts. Peer-to peer feedback benefits participants by: 1) enhancing and practicing feedback skills; 2) providing opportunities to share thinking; 3) sharing lesson and curricular planning, and 4) creating networking opportunities and community support.
Book required: Durden, E. Moncell (2018) Beginning Hip Hop Dance: An interactive dance series. Human Kinetics. https://us.humankinetics.com/pages/support or https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Hip-Hop-Dance-Interactive-ebook/dp/B07CV4LKZ9
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Moncell Durden
<p><strong>E. MONCELL DURDEN </strong>is a dance educator, choreographer, ethnographer, embodied historian, author and associate professor of practice at University of Southern California Glorya Kaufman International School of Dance who specializes in pedagogical practices that prove cultural and historical context in what he calls the morphology of Afro-kinetic memory. A highly sought-after instructor, Durden teaches practical and theoretical classes in the U.S. and abroad; an expert in locking, house, hip-hop, authentic jazz, and party dances from 1900 to the present. He has published articles in Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots and Branches and the Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America, Rooted Jazz Dance, and the Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance.</p>
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