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General Description:

Study to gain an overarching understanding of the role of the arts in society, especially the artist’s role as a catalyst in social change, through an interdisciplinary studies track that integrates the following four components:

(1) History or Cultural Studies from at least two different departments

(2) A rigorous study from an “Arts” department, in this case, music

(3) At least two ethics/religious components preferably from varied traditions

(4) At least two environmental science classes.

“I live to see the day when this world of black and white considers the possibilities of having different shades of grey.”
Dark City

ASC Links:

- Hip Hop and Social Change at the Field Museum, Chicago

- Hip Hop Press

- Local movements taking fruit

- The Circle – The Hip Hop Archive

- A page dedicated to Hip Hop for Social Change

- A website called Pioneers of Change contains a page called “Arts for Social Change”

- US: Mobilizing the Hip-Hop Generation by Jesse Alejandro Cottrell, WireTap

- Hip-hop Nation By Suzy Hansen, Salon

- Hip Hop as a Political Tool By Yvonne Bynoe, AlterNet

Freshly Prepared
May 7, 2007

Song

Verse (sung)
As I sit near my window
And open up my heart and soul
The struggle of the world
Seems so long and cold

When was the last time
We swam upstream
Against the flowing current
This world that cannot dream

The ones we can’t see
Rob us of our means
And dull your senses
With calculated schemes

Refrain
At our work/ In our place
Wilderness/ Life and death
Through the test/ There’s no rest
Mindfulness!

Verse repeats
Refrain repeats