A new course at Washington University in St. Louis, U.S.
will see students examine the world and life of superstar rapper, Kanye West.
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 75 third-year
students have registered for “Politics of Kanye West: Black Genius and Sonic
Aesthetics”.
Jeffrey McCune, professor, says the course which began this
week will focus on the rapper, producer and fashion designer.
He noted that it will offer a way for students to connect
issues of politics, race, gender, sexuality and culture.
It’s not the first college course about West. Georgia State
University offered one in 2015, and a 2014 course at the University of Missouri
focused on West and Jay Z.
“Kanye West As a hip-hop artist has had unprecedented impact
on the sonic force of music, fashion, politics, and videography. Coupling his
controversial moments, with his corpus of musical texts with special focus on
sonic production, this course illuminates Mr. West as a case study for interrogating
the interplay between fame, gender, sexuality, and race.
“Mostly, we explore how racialized ways of doing
iconography, complex ways of seeing, creates a distorted or reductive frame
through which we see the black and famous. Nonetheless, the course oscillates
with entertaining these nuances, while being entertained by the decade-long
catalogue of music and visual imagery.
“Together, we extract the ‘Politics of Mr. West’ in his
music and life, while also illuminating the importance of a politics of
genius-making in the larger arc of black pop culture tradition,” said the
course description.
Although 75 undergraduates have already registered, there’s
still a waiting list of students to get in.
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