SPAN 6527 Hispanic Popular Culture from Bad Bunny to Don Quixote
Conducted in Spanish and Fulfills the Pre-1800 Peninsular requirement for majors. What is good taste and bad taste? What is popular culture and how it becomes mainstream? How is a literary classic born? Taking Cervantess masterpiece Don Quixote as our anchoring point, we study the rich popular cultures of the Hispanic worlds. For the past decade, Hispanic peoples around the world have been influencing music, literature, film, and television. Bad Bunnys music will not be the last time Spanish language becomes global, and Cervantess was not the first. This course pairs chapters of Don Quixote with contemporary popular culture (music, film, television) to question whether a literary masterpiece is that much different from other artworks. We explore issues of taste, identity, aesthetics, politics, gender, and global circulation of goods and ideas.
Course overview
- Department
- Hispanic Studies
- School
- MCAS
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Offered
- Periodically
Catalog details
- Prerequisites
- Contextos, concurrent enrollment in Contextos, or with permission of instructor
Requirements fulfilled
- Hispanic Studies: Advanced literature and culture courses at the 6000 level (four courses, 12 credits; must include at least one each in pre-1800 Peninsular, pre-1900 Latin American, post-1800 Peninsular, and post-1900 Latin American) (Current University Catalog; students should confirm their catalog year)
- Hispanic Studies: Electives (five courses, 15 credits: SPAN2215 as an entry-level course only, SPAN2216, or additional Hispanic Studies courses at the 3000 or 6000 level) (Current University Catalog; students should confirm their catalog year)