CCST 227
Art and Soul Of Social Change
Art, Activism and New Media Technology in
Popular Resistance
Weekly
Schedule and Readings
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Week I: January 24
introduction to key terms and issues: Ahimsa, Artivist and Aeffect
Required Readings:
1. How do artists in different media address social issues?
2. Why Art and Aeffecy for social change?
Suggested Reading
Week II: January 31
Readings:
1. Howard Zinn
3. What is Art for Social Change?
Week III: February 7
The Logic of nonviolance and Social Movements
Required Readings:
1. The
Nature of Political Power
2. The Mythology of Violence: Ackerman and Duvall, pp 457-468
Please Watch the Videos
á The Top Ten Most Influential
Resistances/revolts
á How to Protest as a Person of color
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Week IV: February 14 .
Mallika Sarabhai:
1. The Power of Dance for Social
Change
3.
Eve
Ensler: Rise, Dance and Disrupt
5.
My Revolution Lives in this
body
Week V: February 21.
Music in the Civil Rights Movement and
the mobilization of tradition,
use of the "freedom songs," and secular musical traditions as
a major resource for the struggle against racial injustice.
Readings:
1. T.V. Reed, Singing the Civil RIghts pp. 1-39
2. Sound Track for a revolution
3. Civil RIghts for the 21st.
Century
Week VI: February 28
Emmanuel Jai – The Music
of a War Child
How
Rap Music Fueled the ÒArab SpringÓ
Rock
The Kasba
Readings:
1.The Arab Uprising, J. Gelvin; 1-32
2. The Political Transformation of the Middle East and North
Africa
4. From Fear to Fury: Tunisia Pays Tribute
Week VII: March 7.
Visualized and
performed modes of dissent within public space, both in the streets and online.
Can New Media Bring about
a revolution?
Readings;
Manuel Castells, Social Media and Revolution
Study Questions
Art and activism resources on line.
2. Inside the Egyption Revolution 2.0
3. Ideas from Arab Youth: Demand for Democracy and Human
Rights.
4. Revolutionary Walls: Bahia Shehab: A
thousand times no
Week VIII: March 14.
Class Presentations
Wrap up of Weeks I- VII
Week IX: March 21.
No Class. Work on Final Projects.
Actup , Aids and Gay Rights
Readings: T.V. Reed -179-216 :
ACTing UP: http://www.actupny.org/reports/silencedeath.html
Social
Change:From Stonewall Riots to the Same sex
Marriage Act.
Week X: March 28.
No Class. Spring Break.
Students Make Art For Social Change.
"
Which Image opened your eyes to Human Rights"
Students will research, design, execute, and present a piece of art, on
an issue, related to "Human Rights"
Technologies of Protest: Public Square and Social
Change
"Surveillance
and Sousveillance"
1. Public Sousveillance
of Police Misconduct
2. When the Watched Become the
Watchers"
Week XI: April
4.
Migration is beautiful; Favianna Rodriguez
Art
power and Imagination
Week XII : April 11
My Photgraphs Bear Witness
1. James Nachtwei;
My Photographs Bear Witness
2. Ai
Wei Wei, Migrant Crisis: Human Flow
Week XIII: April 18
Technologies of Protest: Public Square and Social
Change
"Surveillance
and Sousveillance"
1. Public Sousveillance
of Police Misconduct
2. When the Watched Become the
Watchers"
Week
XIV: April 25.
Students Make Art For
Social Change.
" Which Image opened your eyes to Human
Rights"
Students will research, design, execute, and present a piece of art, on
an issue, related to "Human Rights"
Political
Power of Social Media
Ai Weiwei: The Dissident
2. Human Rights, New Media and Underground
documentary
1. Reflections on the
Cultural Study of Social Movements."
2. http://culturalpolitics.net/social_movements/
STUDENT PRESENTATIONS.
May 2 & 9