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ANTHROPOLOGY OF YOUTH
CULTURE:
Cool Capitalism and Its Rebels
Winter 2012
Anthropology
University of Toronto, Mississauga.
Office: HSC 354.
Email
(use sparingly, please): Dylan.clark {{ at
}} utoronto.ca
Office hours (use judiciously, please): Tue/Thr/Fri 1-2:30, and by appointment.
Course texts:
none required.
Course films: (To be announced)
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Expectations, Policies, and Common Courtesy
Attendance: Students are
expected to attend all classes.
Punctuality: You are expected to arrive and be settled
in your
seat by the beginning of class and to remain until the end of
class.
Unless you become ill, do not begin packing up books or stand
to leave
before the end of class, because this is distracting to all.
If you
know you cannot stay for the entire period, please report to
the prof
before class begins, then sit near the door and leave very
quietly. Students who disappear at breaks, or walk out
near the
end of class, can expect low marks for participation.
Courtesy in Class: Every student is expected to pay
close
attention in the lecture or film. Refrain from talking during
lectures
and films, except to ask or respond to a question from the
instructor.
Even quiet talking is distracting and disrespectful for your
fellow
students and your instructor. Turn off pagers and mobile
phones. In
class, your undivided attention and courtesy is also expected;
however,
this is your opportunity to discuss what you are learning in
class with
your TA and one another. You are encouraged to thoughtfully
ask and
answer questions, but please, no confidential, whispered
conversations.
Anything you say should be directed to the class as a
whole.
Email Communication: Emailing with your professor or TA
is a
form of professional communication. Please write courteously
and
clearly; do not use text-messaging abbreviations or slang.
Please
clearly indicate your questions or concerns. Be sure to
provide a
summary of the email topic in the Subject line (do not just
write Hi
or leave the Subject blank, or your email may be rejected as
junk mail
by the UTM server). You should always use your UT email
address if at
all possible. The UT server regularly rejects Hotmail and
Yahoo
accounts as potential spam. Your message should be
very brief, polite, and to the point.
Please
remember that office
hours are limited
and that there are only so many hours to divide between
hundreds of
students.
Usually, you don't need to explain your missing presence, your missing papers, etc. Generally
speaking,
something came up and you missed class. It is your
responsibility to
get notes from another student. Back up your computer files,
start
projects long before they are due, and study hard. You will
not be
excused from your work: just get the job done. In severe
situations
(death in the family, disabling illness, etc.) provide written
proof.
If you qualify for accommodations because of a disability,
please submit to me a letter from the proper UTM authorities
in a
timely manner so that your needs may be addressed. UTM has
procedures
to determine accommodations based on documented disabilities.
If you
have religious scheduling concerns, please report these in the
first or
second week of class. I will do my utmost to respect
disabilities and religious
issues if they should arise.
MID-TERMS and FINAL EXAMINATIONS
Both the mid-terms and the final exam will consist of multiple
choice
and short answer questions on ALL materials presented in the
class
(readings, lectures, AND films). The final exam will not
be
cumulative. However, materials reviewed again in lectures will
be a
part of the final exam.
*MISSED EXAMS*
Avoid missing an exam - the procedure for taking a make-up
exam is
strictly regulated by the university, and these policies will
be
followed in all cases. Please notify the instructor by email
or phone
as soon as possible if you miss an exam.
* For the Mid-term Exam, see Section 7.9 Term Tests in the UTM
Calendar for 2009-2010. A valid doctor's excuse or similar
university-approved excuse will be required to take the
make-up for the
mid-term. ONE makeup will be given for the mid-term, the week
after the
regular exam. All makeup exams will be short answer format
only, not
multiple choice.
* For the Final Exam, see Section 7.14 Examinations in the UTM
Calendar for 2009-2010. You will have to submit a petition to
Registrar Services, among other
requirements,
and re-take the exam during the Deferred Examinations Period
(possibly
Feb. 2010 during Reading Week, or
as
otherwise scheduled by the university). All makeup exams will
be short
answer format only, not multiple choice.
PLAGIARISM on exams and written work: You may get
lecture notes
from other students for days when you are absent, but the
answers you
submit must be your own independent work. Exercises in which
duplication is detected will be severely penalized. For more
details,
see Academic Honesty; and the Code of Behaviour
on Academic Matters in the UTM Calendar for 2011-2012 under
Code of Behaviour on Academic
Matters. It is your
responsibility to be familiar with this code, and adhere to
it.
IF you have any questions about what is or is not plagiarism,
please
see www. Plagiarism.org. Changing
words from
a source and "putting it in your own words" is
plagiarism. If you
are using another person's words, put it in quotes, if you
are
paraphrasing another's idea, cite her. Further: you
may not
submit even a single sentence of your own work from another
course. This too is plagiarism. Students
will be
required to submit their course essays to Turnitin.com.
You
will do so via UTM
Submit. The instructor takes this issue very
seriously.
The university takes this issue very seriously. Any
attempt to
gain undue advantage over your classmates by plagiarizing or
other
forms of cheating will be dealt with according to the Code of
Behaviour on Academic
Matters. The terms
that apply to the University's use of the Turnitin.com service
are
described on the Turnitin.com web site.
LATE EXERCISES: (1) Late exercises will be penalized
per
calendar day, including weekends (Turnitin.com will register
the
time/date of your submission). The penalty is 4%
on the
first day late, then 1.5% per day thereafter.
COURSE MARKS: Midterm
examination: 25%, paper 20%, participation and quizzes 15%,
final exam
40%.
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Course
Calendar:
Reading
is to
be done by the start of class.
Notes
on
reading:
* Read
both
text and illustrations, except as noted.
Course Calendar: (Reading is to be done by the start
of class.)
Note: view videos early: only
one
copy, and time/space may be limited.
Winter 2012
Jan 5
* Williams, Raymond. 1977. "Ideology," and "Hegemony," in Williams' Marxism and Literature, NY: Oxford U. Press, pp. 55-71 and 110-4.
* Lears, T.J. Jackson, 1983. "From Salvation to Self-Realization: Advertising and the Therapeutic Roots of the Consumer Culture, 1880-1930," in Richard Wightman Fox and T.J. Jackson Lears (eds.) The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880-1980. NY: Pantheon, 3-38.
week
2
Jan 12
*
Horkheimer, Max and Theodor Adorno 1944 [2006], "The Culture
Industry:
Enlightenment as Mass Deception," in Meenakshi Gigi Durham and
Douglas
M. Kellner (eds), Media and Cultural
Studies, 2nd ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell, pp. 3-19.
* Malcolm Cowley, 1934 [2002], ''From Exile's Return," in
Stephen
Duncombe, 2002, Cultural Resistance
Reader, NY: Verso , pp. 312-6, or longer version online here).
week
3
Jan 19
* Frank, Thomas. 1997. "A Cultural Perpetual Motion Machine: Management Theory and Consumer Revolution in the 1960s," in Frank, The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, pp. 1-33, and unpaginated illustrations.
*
Williams,
Raymond. 1977. "Dominant, Residual, Emergent," and
"Structures of Feeling," in Williams' Marxism
and
Literature, NY: Oxford U. Press, pp. 121-35.
week 4
Jan
26
* Hebdige,
Dick. 1979. "From Culture to Hegemony," and "Subculture:
The
Unnatural Break," and "Two Forms of Incorporation," in Hebdige,
Subculture: the Meaning of Style,
NY: Routledge, pp. 5-19, 90-9.
* Scott, James C. 1985 [2002]. in Stephen
Duncombe, Cultural Resistance
Reader, NY: Verso , pp. 89-96. (Please read the George
Orwell "Shooting an Elephant" sidebar as well).
*
Willis, Ellen. 1999.
"Crowds and Freedom," in Karen Kelly and Evelyn McDonnell, Stars
Don't
Stand Still in the Sky: Music
and Myth. NY: NYU Press, pp. 153-9.
optional
reading:
Weinstein, Deena. 1999. "Art Versus Commerce: Deconstructing a (Useful) Romantic Illusion," in Karen Kelly and Evelyn McDonnell, Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky: Music and Myth. NY: NYU Press, pp. 56-71.
week 5
Feb 2
* Louis Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," excerpt from Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, Ben Brewster (translator), NY: Monthly Review Press 1971, pp. 127-86. Please pay special attention to the section "Ideology Interpellates Individuals as Subjects." Also available online, but I strongly prefer that you use the book version (on Blackboard) that we will literally on the same page.
* Becker, Howard. 1963. "Becoming a Marihuana User," in Becker, Outsiders. NY: Free Press, pp. 41-58.
Week 6
Feb 9
* Stuart Cosgrove, "The Zoot Suit and Style Warfare," in Stephen Duncombe, 2002, Cultural Resistance Reader, NY: Verso , pp.157-66 (or you can read the long version online).
* Lipsitz, George. 1990. "Cruising Around the Historical Bloc: Postmodernism and Popular Music in East Los Angeles," in Lipsitz, Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture, Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, pp. 133-62
* Gilroy, Paul. 1999. "Analogues of Mourning: Mourning the Analog," in Karen Kelly and Evelyn McDonnell, Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky: Music and Myth. NY: NYU Press, pp. 261-71.
optional reading:
Thomas Frank, 1995 [2002]. "Why Johnny Can't Dissent," in Stephen Duncombe, Cultural Resistance Reader, NY: Verso , pp. 316-27, or longer version here
Week 7
Feb
16 Midterm examination. 2 hours.
Week 8
Feb
23
Reading Week.
Week
9
March 1
*
McGuigan,
Jim.
2009. "Consumer Culture," in McGuigan, Cool Capitalism, NY:
Pluto pp.
82-128.
* Debord, Guy. 1967 [2006]. "The
Commodity
as Spectacle," in
Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas M. Kellner (eds), Media and
Cultural
Studies, 2nd
ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell,pp. 117-21.
*
O'Hara,
Craig.
1999. "Media Misrepresentation," in O'Hara, The Philosophy
of
Punk, 2nd ed. SF: AK Press, pp. 42-8.
*
Eco,
Umberto. 1986. excerpts from "Travels in Hyper-Reality," and
"Language,
Power, Force," in Eco, Travels in
Hyper-Reality. London: Picador, pp. 3-8,
43-4, 239-55
Week 10
March
8
* Bordo,
Susan.1993. "Hunger as Ideology," in Border, Unbearable
Weight:
Feminism, Western
Culture, and the Body, 2nd ed. Berkeley: U. of California
Press, pp. 99-134
* Dyer, Richard. 1984 [2006]. "Stereotyping," in Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas M. Kellner (eds), Media and Cultural Studies, 2nd ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell, pp. 353-65.
optional reading:
* Friedan, Betty. 1963 [2000]. "The Sexual Sell," in Juliet B. Schor and Douglas B. Holt (eds.), The Consumer Society Reader, NY: The New Press, pp. 26-46.
Week
11
March 15
* McGuigan, Jim. 2009. "Market Values," in McGuigan, Cool Capitalism, NY: Pluto, pp. 129-65.
* Frank, Tom. "The Rise of Market Populism," The Nation, October 30, 2000, pp. 13-9.
Week
12
March 22
* Kelley, Robin D. G. 1998. "Check the
Technique: Black Urban Culture
and the Predicament of Social Science," in Nick Dirks, In Near
Ruins:
Cultural Theory at the End
of the Century, Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, pp.
39-66.
* Gilroy, Paul. 1993.
"Between Afro-centrism and Euro centrism: Youth culture and
the problem of hybridity," Young, 1 (2), pp. 2-12.
* Tracy, Pamela J. 2004 [2008]. " 'Why Don't You Act Your
Color?': Preteen Girls, Identity, and Popular Music," chapter in
Michael Ryan, Cultural Studies, An Anthology. NY: Blackwell. pp.
610-6.
Week 13
March 26 (Monday) PAPERS DUE, 3:PM, uploaded to
TurnItIn
via UTM SUBMIT.
(Just
login with your UTOR id and password,
upload you paper, and check the box to send to
TurnItin.com. If
you failed to get it to TurnItin.com you must contact
Computing
Services, and this will result in a late paper AND a
penalty.)
Even if it's an accident.
An identical hard copy to be slid under my office door (HSC 354)
by
5PM, Wed., March 28. In other words the e-copy is due
first. The hard copy can trickle in a day or two
later.
Late papers (e-copies and hard copies) will be marked
late.
March 29
* Baulch, Emma. 2007. "Gesturing Elsewhere," in Baulch Making Scenes: Reggae, Punk, and Death Metal in 1990s Bali, Durham, NC: Duke U. Press, pp. 49-72
* Radicalesbians. 1970[2002] in Stephen Duncombe, Cultural Resistance Reader, NY: Verso , pp. 248-54.
* Bakhtin, Mikhail. 1965 [2002], "From Rabelais and His World," in Stephen Duncombe, Cultural Resistance Reader, NY: Verso , pp. 82-8.
April 16 FINAL EXAM. 3 hours. 9AM-noon. DV Cafe C. Although some concepts run throughout the course, please concentrate all of your efforts on readings and lectures since the midterm.
OPTIONAL VIDEO, strongly recommended and very
helpful: Stuart Hall: http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-847138358028290786