"Rap Sessions: Dialogue on Race and Hip Hop" LA

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UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology presents> > > "Rap Sessions: A Community Dialogue on Race and Hip-Hop"> with Bakari Kitwana and a panel of hip-hop experts> > > Thursday, April 20, 2006> 7pm> Jan Popper Theater> 1200 Schoenberg Music Bldg> > > Free of charge> > > Bakari Kitwana, author, activist, and co-founder of the first ever > National Hip-Hop Political Convention, presents "Rap Sessions" -- a > multiracial panel of hip-hop experts who are currently touring the > nation to engage youth and community leaders in candid, compelling > conversations about the hip-hop cultural movement and emerging racial > politics of our time. Panelists include the following authors: hip-hop > journalist and ethnic studies professor Oliver Wang, Tufts University > sociology professor Raquel Z. Rivera, spoken-word poet and > critically-acclaimed novelist Adam Mansbach, award-winning hip-hop > photographer Ernie Paniccioli, and UCLA ethnomusicology professor and > hip-hop scholar, Cheryl Keyes.[/b]> > > One of a series of events for the department's "Year of African > American Music"> > For further information call (310) 206-3033 www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu> > Parking $8 - Lot #2 (corner of Hilgard and Westholme Blvds), UCLA>