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Professor Rose's cover on the July/August 2009 Brown Alumni Magazine. |
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"The Hip Hop Wars" - A Lecture by Professor Tricia Rose
After exploring how hip hop has become the primary means by which we talk about race and culture in the United States, Rose will offer six guiding principles for progressive hip hop creativity, consumption, and community...
In her recent book, THE HIP HOP WARS: What We Talk
About When We Talk About Hip Hop-And Why It Matters, Professor Rose voices a call for revitalization of
the progressive, creative heart of hip hop, which has increasingly become
defined by one thin slice of a varied, complex genre. While
"conscious rappers" such as Talib Kweli and The Roots may receive
enormous critical acclaim, it's the rappers who employ what Rose calls the
"gansta-pimp-ho trinity"- such as T.I. and 50 Cent-who sell the most
records and dominate the recording industry, TV, film, and radio. As a
result, the most visible and widely-consumed hip hop sets forth a troubled
vision of ghetto street life that defines young, at-risk black men and women to
each other and also to a large white audience (seventy percent of hip hop
consumers are white). After exploring how hip hop has become the primary means
by which we talk about race and culture in the United States, Rose will offer
six guiding principles for progressive hip hop creativity, consumption, and
community, ending the "blame hip hop vs. explain hip hop" wars and
promoting critical conversations that inspire transformational music as well as
social justice for all.
Thursday, February
25, 2010 at The Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers
Registration and
networking at 6:30PM, Lecture will begin at 7:30PM
$15 for Brown Club
Members and Guests
$25 for non-Members
and Guests
Price includes: a
light supper and a faculty lecture from one of Brown's most provocative young
professors
Please register and pay
online (preferred) at: https://alumni.brown.edu/alumni/BRAVO/Events/Registration.aspx?Event=571
You may mail a check
payable to the Brown University Club of Boston, Inc.
c/o Eugene Mahr, 26 Brooks
Avenue, Newtonville, MA 02460
Co-sponsored by The Brown University Club of Boston, Pembroke Center Associates, the Asian/Asian American Alumni Association (A4), the Brown University Latino Alumni Council (BULAC), the Inman Page Black Alumni Council (IPC) and the Multicultural Alumni Committee of the Brown Alumni Association (MAC).
This event was possible in part thanks to the generosity of
Donald L. Saunders '57.
Questions? Please
contact Martha Hamblett: Martha_Hamblett@brown.edu
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