Students in this course will engage with a history of hip-hop music, including major trends, changes in technique and musicianship, some important artists and albums, regional styles, and their relationship with the larger sociocultural context of African-American and US politics, cultural production, and daily life.

This course aims to understand the music through notated scores and to critique that approach to better analyze how music works.

Social Science and Music is a three-year, pre-university double-concentration program where students earn two CEGEP diplomas.