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Power Moves
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Moves is a phrase with many meanings: rappers use it to signify actions
being taken to better one's position; basketball players use it to refer to a
particular move that's often executed on inner city courts; for breakers, it's
the name of a specific type of dance step. This spring, the Cultural
Studies in the African Diaspora Project (CSADP) at UCLA will host POWER MOVES, a
two-day conference and one-day student symposium on Hip Hop culture dedicated to
promoting meaningful dialogue between critical theorists, ethnomusicologists,
executives in the music industry, performers, students, journalists, and
academics, among others.
While
we want to evoke all of these definitions, we are also interested in how both
individual and group actions relate to certain power structures.
Essentially, we are saying that power does not stand stand still; in fact, power
moves on a regular basis. And in a society such as ours, art often
challenges various systems of power and influences public opinion.
In
addition to panel discussions, POWER MOVES will reflect the varied cultural
manifestations of the genre.
We
will have film screenings of two seminal Hip Hop films, Krush Groove and
La Haine.
We
are organizing a photography exhibit that will feature the work of
several journalists who have been documenting the culture, including
emceeing, deejaying, dancing and writing graffiti.
Finally,
our website will contain an extensive timeline and bibliography
of academic essays and books on Hip Hop culture. Our goal is to
provide the audience with a multi-dimensional, multi-media Hip Hop
experience.
 Broadcast
via the internet by Hip Hop Hemisphere
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