ANTH-E 206 CHANTING DOWN BABYLON: PROTEST AND POPULAR CULTURE IN THE AFRO-CARIBBEAN (3 CR.)
Explores Afro-Caribbean popular culture as political protest against colonialism and its legacies, the failures of local government, and global-northern political, economic and other forms of domination. Explores grass-roots Afro-Caribbean popular culture as well as mass-media content such as recorded music, fiction writing and documentary film making.
1 classes found
Fall 2024
| Component | Credits | Class | Status | Time | Day | Facility | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEC | 3 | 31353 | Open | 4:10 p.m.–6:40 p.m. | TR | SE 010 | Sterling M |
Eight Week - Second / In Person
LEC 31353: Total Seats: 27 / Available: 10 / Waitlisted: 0
Lecture (LEC)
- IUB GenEd S&H credit
- COLL (CASE) Global Civ & Cultr
- COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inq
- IUB GenEd S&H credit
- COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
- COLL (CASE) Global Civ & Culture credit
- Above class meets second eight weeks only
"Chanting Down Babylon" explores Afro-Caribbean popular culture as dissent, such as against colonialism and its legacies, the failures of local government, and global political and economic power. Course goals include (1) providing a broad historical, political, economic, and cultural context for understanding contemporary Caribbean society. The course (2) investigates religious, musical, and other forms of popular cultural production according to three themes: ¿ ¿Dictating¿ Resistance¿; ¿Situating Resistance¿; and ¿Writing Resistance¿. The course finally considers (3) how these cultural politics play themselves out across global sites to which Afro-Caribbean peoples have immigrated. While the course primarily explores ¿popular culture¿ on a local, grassroots level, it also considers mass-media production (music, writing, film) made in and outside the region.
The College of Arts