 Philosophy helps students develop strong
skills in writing, critical thinking, reading, and understanding
complex texts. These skills are indispensable for any
committed and concerned citizen. The study of philosophy
also provides a deeper understanding and enjoyment of
the challenges and issues people face throughout their
personal and professional lives.
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Grandmaster Flash
John Cage
The Clash
Jean-Francoise Lyotard
Karlheintz Stockhausen
Andy Warhol
Le Tigre
Orlan
Britney Spears
Walter Benjamin
Klaus Nomi
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Public Image Limited
Afrikaa
Bambaataa
Graffiti
Giles Deleuze
Throbbing Gristle
Jacques Attali
Jay-Z
Theodor Adorno
Donna Haraway
Kraftwerk
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Human League
Timbaland
Giorgio Moroder
Musique Concret
Sonic Youth
Steve Reich
Daft Punk
Marshall McLuhan
Mix Tapes/Mashups
Kanye West
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Take Robin James’s LBST 1103 “The Arts & Society:
Music” course during Summer Session I and find out.
We will examine the influence that twentieth century
avant-garde music, art, and philosophy had and has on
post-1970 popular music (focusing especially on punk,
hip-hop, and disco/dance music). How did innovations in
art, avant-garde music, and philosophy lay the
groundwork for the birth of punk, hip-hop, and disco in
the mid 1970s? How do these popular musical genres fit
in with various “high art” and philosophical discourses?
For example, the sampling technique pioneered by Kool
Herc and Grandmaster Flash bears important relationships
to Lyotard’s postmodernist theory and John Cage’s
tape-splicing. |
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