In , Catalan separatists triggered Spain's biggest political crisis since the death of fascist dictator Francisco Franco in Sunday's Catalan election gave the separatists a majority in the regional parliament. He remains wanted under a Spanish arrest warrant. Reporter James Badcock in Madrid writes:. If the court order against Pablo Hasel is finally enforced, he will become the highest-profile person to have actually gone to prison for a speech crime in Spain in recent years.
But his case is only one of many that have caused controversy. Several other performers and bloggers have fallen foul of the criminal offence of "glorifying terrorism", which is framed so broadly that any example of justifying a terrorist act, even if it took place a long time ago, can lead to a conviction.
The year before, Twitter user Cassandra Vera had been sentenced to prison for merely making jokes about the assassination of Gen Franco's number two, Adm Luis Carrero Blanco, in a bomb attack by Eta Basque militants, although she was acquitted on appeal.
The government has promised to review the law. The legal framing of speech crimes might seem a dry, academic subject, but an explosion of graffiti artwork in Spanish cities in defence of Hasel in recent days suggests that many among Spain's youth believe there is a real issue of freedom at stake. Separatists set to keep majority in Catalonia. Forced to flee my country for rapping. The Hip-Hop Studies Minor will deepen your connection to hip-hop through a blend of hands-on experiences and thoughtful coursework.
Open to Columbia students in any major, the program reflects the interdisciplinary nature of hip-hop culture. It combines course offerings in music, dance, business, art, radio, and cultural studies. Learn how to be an ally and change agent in the community through internships, independent projects outside the classroom, and community collaborations. First, such students are often engaging in this kind of interpretive practice and engagement with popular culture outside of classrooms.
Second, it is often students who are viewed as producing the most vulgar, least valuable aesthetic contributions who are most deeply immersed in an alternative curriculum. In other words, while we should critique and worry about the violent content in all popular culture, we must also acknowledge that hip-hop gives us the possibility to do so by being relentlessly engaged with grammars, metaphor, meaning and space and time traveling in the context of hip-hop.
A third issue is why these students are mostly doing this knowledge production outside the spaces of formal learning. This may be because these practices have been excluded to prioritize certain canons and their ideological priorities while not engaging substantially with others. This refusal to engage with the knowledge-making practices of young Black people -- practices that are consumed by most of the planet, means that the decision makers lack key literacies themselves.
The editors at University of Michigan Press, who recently published my academically peer-reviewed rap project, i used to love to dream , and my dissertation committee at Clemson University had serious conversations about how to overcome this lack of literacy among influential gatekeepers.
Princeton has taken a step in the right direction by removing its language requirement. My hope is that all higher education institutions expand what they view as rigorous prerequisites for their programs and perhaps tune in to what hip-hop may offer in this regard.
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