Week 1 & 2 : Culture, politics and resistance
CRR (Sections I - III):
Introduction
Christopher Hill, “Levellers and True Levellers”;
Raymond Williams, from Keywords
Marx & Engels, from The German Ideology
Matthew Arnold, from Culture and Anarchy
Walter Benjamin, Author as Producer
Antonio Gramsci from The Prison Notebooks
Mikhail Bakhtin, from Rabelais and his World
Kelley, from Race Rebels
PDFs:
Raymond Williams, Culture is Ordinary
Hesmondalgh, “Alternative Media, Alternative Texts?”
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, “Constituents of a Theory of the Media”
Duncombe, excerpts from Zines: Notes from the Underground
Week 3 & 4: The Politics of Resistance, Intro to Subcultures
[QUIZ]
CRR (Sections 3-4):
Jean Baudrillard, The Masses: The Implosion of the Social in the Media
James C. Scott, from Weapons of the Weak
Stuart Hall, Notes on Deconstructing the Popular
Hobsbawm, from Primitive Rebels
Dick Hebdige, The Meaning of Mod
John Clarke, The Skinheads and the Magical Recovery of a community
PDFs:
Dick Hebdige from Subculture: The Meaning of Style
Chapter 6 : Subculture: The Unnatural Break
Chapter 7 : Style as Intentional Communication
Chapter 8 : Style as Homology
Honors students:
James C. Scott, Everyday Forms of Resistance;
John Clarke, Stuart Hall, Tony Jefferson, Brian Roberts: Subcultures, Cultures and Class from Resistance through Rituals
Robert Cross, The Teddy Boys as Scapegoat
Week 5 & 6: Subcultures, Racism and Resistance
[QUIZ]
CRR (Part 5):
Elaine Goodale Eastman, “The Ghost Dance of the War”
Stuart Cosgrove, “The Zoot-Suit and Style Warfare”
Mahatma Gandhi, Hind Swraj
CLR James, Beyond Boundary
PDFs:
Frantz Fanon, Racism and Culture
Alica Gaspar De Alba, “A theoretical introduction: Alter-native Ethnography, a lo rasquache” from Chicano Art: Inside/Outside the Mater’s House
Jose Antonio Burciaga, “Con Safos”
Week 7: Girls and subcultures, Feminism, Postfeminism and Resistance
[QUIZ]
CRR (Section 4):
Radicalesbians: “The Woman identified Woman”
Riot Grrrl, “Riot Grrrl is…”
Kathleen Hanna, Interview in Punk Planet
PDFs:
Rosalind Gill, Postfeminist Media Culture: Elements of a Sensibility
McRobbie, Post-feminism and Popular Culture. Bridget Jones and the New Gender Regime
Fien Adriaens, Postfeminism in Popular Culture: A Potential for Critical Resistance?
Garber & McRobbie, Girls and Subcultures
Kristen Schilt, “I’LL RESIST WITH EVERY INCH AND EVERY BREATH”
Wivian Weller, The Feminine Presence in Youth Subcultures
Kristen Schilt, Girls and Zine Making as a Form of Resistance
Week 8: Midterm
Review and Midterm
Week 9: Resistance and Music
[QUIZ]
From the CRR (Section 3, 5):
Hakim Bey, from TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone;
George Lipsitz, “Immigration and Assimilation: Rai, Reggae and Bhangramuffin”
Simon Reynolds from Generation Ecstasy
PDFs:
Dick Hebdige: from Cut’n’Mix; Reggae Rastfarianism; Reggae Rastas and Rudies.
Stephen Duncombe, White Riot Punky Reggae Party
Weeks 10-13: Commodities, Co-Optation and Culture Jamming; Remix and Convergence; Pop Politics
CCR (Section 7 and 8):
Theodor Adorno, "On the Fetish-Character in Music and the Regression in Listening"
Richard Hoggart from The Uses of Literacy
Malcolm Cowley from Exile's Return
Thomas Frank, "Why Johnny Can't Dissent"
Adolph Reed, Jr., "Why Is There No Black Political Movement?"
The account of “a lynching in 1920”
Jordan, “Reclaim the Streets”
Jason Grote on 'Revered Billy' and
Ricardo Dominguez's 'Electronic Disturbance'
PDFs:
Jenkins, "Worship at the Altar of Convergence"
Marshall, "Forms of Interactivity: The Disappearance of the Audience"
Himanen, "From Netiquette to a Nethic"
(includes Linus Torvalds' Preface to The Hacker Ethic, "What Makes Hackers Tick?")
Wark, "The Hacker Manifesto"
Matt Mason, "We Invented The Remix"
Henry Jenkins, "Photoshop for Democracy"
Aoki, Boyle and Jenkins - Bound By Law?
James Boyle from The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
PDFs: David Pottie, The Politics of Meaning in Punk Rock
Dylan Clark, Waker Cells and Subcultural Resistance
Dylan Clark, The Death and Life of Punk; Rupa Huq, Young People on the Edge. A World of Post-Subcultures and Post-Suburbs?
Kevin DeLuca, excerpts from Image politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism
Honor students:
The complete version of Baudrillard's "The Masses: The Implosion of the Social in the Media."
Additional Recommended Baudrillard Readings:
Jean Baudrillard, Requiem for the Media
Jean Baudrillard, The Implosion of Meaning in the Media from Simulacra and Simulation
Manovich, "Principles of New Media"
Lessig, "Building Blocks: Commons and Layers" + "Commons on the Wires"
from The Future of Ideas
Week 14: Conclusion: Ethical Sceptical
[QUIZ]
PDF: Duncombe, “Towards an Ethical Spectacle”
Wrap up and Review