Film Screening: Hip-Hop Beats and Rhymes

Posted by on January 15, 2007

HIP-HOP Beats and Rhymes takes an in-depth look at manhood in rap music and hip-hop culture – where creative genius, poetic beauty, and mad beats collide with misogyny, violence, and homophobia. This groundbreaking documentary is a “loving critique” of certain disturbing developments in rap music from the point of view of a fan who challenges the art form’s representations of masculinity.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 25th
Special Event Screening of ?HIP-HOP: BEYOND BEATS & RHYMES?
Doors open at 6:00pm, Film begins at 6:30pm
WHYY Technology Center, 150 N. 6th St, Phila. PA

* for directions, suggested parking and public transportation,
http://www.whyy.org/about/directions_phila.html
Film will be followed by panel and Q&A with:
Harry Allen, Hip-Hop Activist & Media Assassin
Michael Coard, Hip Hop Instructor @ Temple Univ/PASCEP
Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, Professor/Urban Education-Temple University
Donyale Reavis, President-Hip Hop Speaks
performance TBA,

Light refreshments served
This Event is Open to the Public. There is No Charge to Attend. For more information or to RSVP: itvscinemaphiladelphia@yahoo.com or http://www.whyy.org. You may also call, 267.259-2049 or 215.351-0511

Co-Presented by ITVS Community Cinema, WHYY, Hip Hop Speaks, The National Hip Hop Political Convention, Media Tank, Scribe Video Center, Black Lily Film & Music Festival, Freshout Media

Stay tuned for details about a special ?after-school? Youth Screening, Feb 13th

HIP-HOP:BEYOND BEATS AND RHYMES is coming to PBS on Independent Lens – Feb 20, 2007 (check local listings)