The Furious Force of Rhymes
Tuesday, May 8th | 6:30pm to 9pm
Segal Theatre | CUNY Graduate Center
Screening of The Furious Force of Rhymes
followed by Q&A with director Joshua Atesh Litle
Moderated by Sujatha Fernandes,
Associate Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center
“…one is again and again challenged by the uncompromising radically and need for expression of the artists encountered; seduced by their inventiveness, struck by their lucidity, conquered by their pacifism… Ultimately, this series of stories is as much a geopolitical treatise, a compendium of suffering and anger expressed in the name of art. Hip-Hop emerges full-grown.” – La Croix
Sujatha Fernandes is Associate Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she is currently a mid-career Mellon Faculty Fellow at the Committee on Globalization and Social Change. Her most recent book is Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation (Verso, September 2011).
See The Furious Force of Rhyme trailer here.