| Friday, April 17 | |||
| 12:00-2:00 pm | Poetry Slam Jam Workshop with THE LAST POETS, BOB HOLMAN, SEKOU SUNDIATA, MAGGIE ESTEP - also special guest AGHA SHAHID ALI Wilder Bowl or Wilder Dionysus Dance Club for Rain Date | ||
| 3:00- | Registration | ||
| 4:30-6:30 pm | TRICIA ROSE, "BLACK NOISE: RAP MUSIC & BLACK CULTURE IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICA"•Keynote Speaker in King Building Room 106 Book signing and reception to follow in Peters Hall | ||
| 6:30-7:30 pm | Informal Dinner with Hip Hop Committee and Guests | ||
| 7:30-9:30 pm | FILM SHOWING OF THE "BATTLESOUNDS" MOVIE. Discussion with director JOHN CARLUCCIO • Wilder Student Union Room 101 | ||
| 10:00 pm | X-EXECUTIONERS DJ CREW PERFORMANCE Opening Acts: 100 Proff, Quiz, Espionage, Mekka Sunshine Wilder Dionysus Dance Club $3 OCID $5 Others (Tickets available at Wilder Desk and at the door) | ||
| Saturday, April 18 | |||
| 11:00-11:30 | Open Remarks and Brunch at Afrikan Heritage House | ||
| 11:30-1:00 pm | HIP-HOP ECONOMICS W/ BOOTS FROM THE COUP, MICK BOOGIE OF THE BUTTERSHEET, JAY LOUIS, AND MEKKA SUNSHINE | ||
| 1:30-3:15 pm | CONTROLLING THE WEATHER ... W/ BILLY 'UPSKI' WIMSATT, RISHI NATH CLAUDIA VONVACANO, SHELLEY JEFFERSON OF "VIBE," RAVEN, NO LABELS CREW and introductory remarks by STEVE "ESPO" POWERS of "On the Go." We all come at hip-hop from different locations, and we all maintain it in different ways. This workshop brings together artists, mcs, journalists, authors and spoken word poets in hopes of better defining what we mean when we say "We are all hip-hop." | ||
| 3:30-4:30 pm | SEXUAL POLITICS OF HIP-HOP W/ MEDUSA, DJ PAM THE FUNKSTRESS OF THE COUP, RYAN CANTY A PRIESTESS, A PIMP, A HO, AND A PUNK-A conversation on the continuous players in hip-hop. This is not your usual "hip-hop equals misogyny," but more about the possibility of hip-hop transforming ideas and actions about sexualities, "manliness," sensuality, constructions of gender, and "femininity." | ||
| 4:30-5:30 pm | SPIRITUALITY & RELIGION IN HIP-HOP W/ OPURUICHE MILLER, REVEREND HERBERT DAUGHTRY. Spiritual Mentor to the late Tupac Shakur, Rev. Daughtry will speak on the connection of hip-hop and spirit. | ||
| 5:45-7:00 pm | Dinner ($3 sliding scale) and Closing with a Jazz Set at Third World House | ||
| 8:00-11:30 pm | HIEROGLYPHICS W/ CASUAL, DEL THE FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN, DOMINO, SOULS OF MISCHIEF, THE PROSE. Guest MC & DJ: BOOTS & PAM THE FUNKSTRESS OF THE COUP. Opening Acts: JUS'US LEAGUE, MEDUSA, SIAH & YESHUA DAPOED • Finney Chapel, $6 OCID, $8 others. (Tickets available at Wilder Desk, the door and Central Ticket Service) | ||
| 11:30- | HIP-HOP AFTER PARTY WITH BOBBITO GARCIA OF THE "STRETCH & BOBBITO SHOW" • Wilder Dionysus Dance Club • $2 OCID, $4 Others | ||
Copyright © 1998, The Oberlin Review.
Volume 126, Number 21, April 17, 1998
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