Course Number and Name: HMU405H1/MUS1151HGender, Urbanity and the Culture of Hip Hop

Course Description:Rooted in the music and street culture of Black and Latin American urban youth amid the rise of the post-industrial crisis, Hip Hop culture has been a masculinist terrain since its inception. While women and female identifying persons have been among the culture’s creators, they have not always been adequately commemorated as part of Hip Hop’s grand narrative, nor have they been appropriately credited for their contributions and innovations. Working against tremendous odds to contest their ongoing marginalization and objectification, women in Hip Hop developed gender-specific strategies to carve out greater space, access, expression, and representation. Using a variety of archival texts and mediums, this course will explore Hip Hop’s origins and the politics of historical erasure; race, ethnicity and Blackness; gender, queerness, and intersectionality; misogyny, gendered violence, and exploitation; resistive practices, sounds and performances; negotiations with power, capitalism and industry; and the rise of Hip Hop Feminisms.

Class Schedule: Mondays 9-11 am

Months of contract: January to April 2027

Salary: $9,997.48

Estimated Course Enrollment: 30

TA support: yes

Qualifications: Doctoral degree in musicology or closely related field. Extensive knowledge of hip-hop culture, history, and scholarship, particularly in relation to intersections of race, gender, and identity. Demonstrated excellence in university-level teaching, particularly in courses on hip-hop and related cultural forms.

Duties: Define course objectives and materials; provide clear guidelines on course requirements and regulations; teach classes as scheduled; administer and evaluate student assignments; prepare and submit final grades in accordance with policy. Maintain reasonable hours of student consultation outside scheduled class hours.

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Daphne Tan

Associate Dean, Academic & Student Affairs

Associate Professor, Music Theory

Faculty of Music

University of Toronto

80 Queen’s Park

Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C5

This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement. Preference in hiring is given to qualified individuals advanced to the rank of Sessional Lecturer II and Sessional Lecturer III in accordance with Article 14:12. It is understood that some announcements of vacancies are tentative, pending final course determinations and enrolment. Should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail. Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity-deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the position.