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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

Thank You!

I’d like to thank the CIS Department as well as the Music Department, especially Susan Carlson, Dr. Timothy Mahr, Mary Titus, and Kenneth Johnson.

All the musicians and friends who made this project possible, and Bon Appetit who graciously shared their facilities with us.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you.

Guhn Yeon Kim