Cultural Studies Hip Hop

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Subject according curriculum

Diversity Studies

Teachers

Scope

Every Monday, 15:00-16.30 in U11 Budge Start: 13.10.2025 Moodle: => https://elearning.hfmt-hamburg.de/course/view.php?id=796 Questions? Mail to: jan.schlueter@hfmt-hamburg.de or benjamin.sprick@hfmt-hamburg.de

Room

BP U11

Duration

1.5 Semesterwochenstunden

Description

Dear Homies, dear students,

the seminar Cultural Studies Hip Hop II starts on October 13, 2025 in the Cypher Höhle, room U11 Budge at 3 pm.

The seminar is offered by the diversity Studies / Cultural Studies Hip Hop of the HfMT for students of all possible disciplines who want to deal with the largest youth culture in the world and the pop cultural courses related to it. In the sense of "artistic research", practical aspects also play a role, and a final presentation is planned.

This semester, we will examine topics such as Sampling as an Artform, Conscious Rap and Black American History, Rap Slang and its effects on youth culture and niche topics such as rap from the Golden Era and Dirty South Rap or G-Funk. We will again feature illustrious guests who will tell us about rap and hip hop culture from their perspective.

And if you dont know - now you know!

Dr. Benjamin Sprick and Jan Schlüter aka. Slim Schludy

Literature

Daniel Haas, "Hip Hop. 100 pages", Stuttgart: Reclam 2023. Gabriele Klein, "Is this real? The Culture of Hip Hop", Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2003. Vikki Tobak, "Ice Cold. A Hip-Hop Jewelry History", Cologne: Taschen 2023. Questlove, "Hip Hop is History", New York: Auwa Books 2024. Tricia Rose, "The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop-and Why It Matters", New York: Basic Civitas Books 2008. Tricia Rose, "Black Noise. Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America", Middletown: Wesleyan University Press 1994. Sascha Verlan (ed.), "Rap-Texte" = Arbeitstexte für dem Unterricht, Stuttgart: Reclam 2003. Murray Foreman (ed.), That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader, London: Routldge 2023. Peter Shapiro, "The Rough Guide To Hip-Hop", London: Rough Guides 2005. Dustin Breitenwischer, "The History of Hip Hop. 111 Albums", Stuttgart: Reclam 2021. Adam Bradley / Andrew Dubois (eds.), "Anthology of Rap", New Haven: Yale University Press 2010. The RZA, "The Wu-Tang Manual", London: Plexus 2004. Adam Krims, "Rap music and the poetics of identity", Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003. Murray Forman, "The 'Hood Comes First. Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop", Middletown: Wesleyan University Press 2002. Dan Charnas, "DILLA TIME. The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm", New York: Picador 2022. Diedrich Diederichsen, "On Pop Music", Kiepenheuer and Witsch, 2014.

Credits

2 Creditpoints

Comments

Seminar schedule "Hip Hop - The School of Subculture II"

13th/14th SAMPLING (2 parts) [13.10./20.10.25]

Theory & Practice "Sampling as an art form"

Part 1
Music historical classification, copyright and reproduction rights and the digital transformation

Part 2
Hip hop producers and their individual styles of sampling:
from DJ Premier and J Dilla to RZA and Kanye West

Guest for Part 2: Boris Ekambi (Production & Technology)

SPECIAL EVENT I PERFORMANCE @ JAZZ-HALL PHOENIX FESTIVAL
Thursday, 23.10.25, 10 am - 3 pm

15/16 GANGSTER RAP (2 parts) [27.10./03.11.25]

Part 1
We discuss the musical history of gangster rap in the USA and Germany.
From the US East Coast to Los Angeles and the late triumphal march to Germany.

Part 2
Status today: Gangster rap as the dominant genre today and how it conveys socio-cultural and political messages. Both in the USA and in Germany.

17th G-FUNK [10.11.25]
The global commercialization of rap using the example of gangster funk through relaxed pop appeal. Music history of the G-Funk subgenre on the US West Coast and its influence on pop culture.

18. DIRTY SOUTH [17.11.25]
Rap in the US South or the economically weak South also has something to say. We learn about the emergence of various subgenres of rap and travel from creative centers like Atlanta to Houston and from New Orleans to Miami.
[from Atlanta to Houston and from New Orleans to Miami]

19. CONSCIOUS Rap I [24.11.25]
Music history: Political and socio-cultural structures (Harlem Renesaince) in the USA from 1900 up to Malcom X and the civil rights movement around Martin Luther King

20 CONSCIOUS Rap II [01.12.25]
Presentation of artists who laid the foundation for political & conscientious rap and protagonists who are relevant today. What were the issues in the late 80s and what are they today?

21st GOLDEN ERA [08.12.25]
Classification of the golden age of rap music from 1986 to 1996. We highlight the most important artists and genres of this important and most creative
phase of rap.

SPECIAL EVENT II ARTILACS SESSION WITH SLIM SCHLÜDY "DILLA TIME"
10.12.25 - 11 am - 3 pm - LIGETI Center

22nd NATIVE TONGUE Collective [15.12.25]
From the grouping of the Native Tongues (1992) to the Soulquarians (1998-2002) and the ASPA Crew of ASAP Rocky and the Hamburg Eimsbush and Mongo Clique. Why is the creative community, i.e. the so-called possee formation, important in the hip hop context and what synergies arise from it?
Guest: Jan Delay because of Eimsbush & Mongo Clique
SPECIAL EVENT III "DILLA TIME" *** CHRISTMAS PARTY
18.12.25 - 6 pm - MULTIFUNKTIONSSTUDIO

23rd FREESTYLE RAP [12.01.26]
We decode the so-called rap language and special regional slang and discuss how strong the influence of rap lyrics is on today's youth language. From "Babo" to "Digga" and from "tight" to "drip" and "chill". We look at the mainstream print media and how they evaluate the street slang that has arrived in almost all German children's rooms.

24. final discussion [19.01.26]

Modules

Wahlmodul freie Wahl (alle Studiengänge), Wahlmodul Lehramt