[Peace-discuss] Fw: Hip Hop

[Lisa Chason]

may be of interest

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From: Aprel Thomas 
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Subject: Hip Hop Location change


Hi.  Please note the location of this event has been changed from the Colonial Room at the Illini Union to 213 Gregory Hall.   



Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Rahim: Uncovering the Hidden Histories of African American Muslim Movements in the Hip Hop Nation

H. Samy Alim, Duke University

Featuring a performance by David Kelly of All Natural

Wednesday, November 19, 2003

7pm - 213 Gregory Hall
 

FREE and open to the public
Despite the fact that Islam has been a normative practice in African America for centuries since slavery, the full story of African American Muslim Movements (AAMM) remains untold. In particular, despite journalist Harry Allen's description of Islam as Hip Hop's "official religion," Islam's dynamic presence and central role in the Hip Hop Nation (HHN) have been largely unexplored. How much do we know about the relationship between
"Hip Hop" and "Islam"? Do we even see these two movements as compatible?

In his talk, H. Samy Alim will investigate how Islam has served as a transformative force both in the personal lives (helping to shape their identities and ideologies as human beings in process and practice) and in the public roles of many Hip Hop artists as community conscious agents (helping to shape their actions as socially and politically conscious Hip Hop beings involved in the Movement).

H. Samy Alim is co-author of Street Conscious Rap (1999), the third volume in the Umum Hip Hop Trilogy. Currently teaching in Duke University's Linguistics Program, Dr. Alim received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Former editor of The Black Arts Quarterly, his research on the language, culture, poetics and education of the Hip Hop Nation has appeared in American Speech, The Journal of English Linguistics, B'ma: The Sonia Sanchez Literary Review, and The Black Arts Quarterly (ed. two special issues on Hip Hop Culture in the US and international contexts, 2001), as well as several book chapters. Alim's most recent project explores Islamic identities and ideologies in the Hip Hop Nation in national and international contexts. After intensive language study in the American University of Cairo's Arabic Language Institute, Alim has also begun a research agenda focusing on shaabi music - the street language, culture and verbal art of urban Cairo.

 
Sponsored by the Council of Muslim Graduates and the Muslim Artists Collective
Co-sponsored by:  Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Al-Alim, Alpha Phi Alpha, Center on Democracy in a Multi Racial Society, Egyptian American Students Association, Illinois Disciples Foundation, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Intercultural Friendship Foundation, Justice for Palestine, La Casa Cultural Latina, Lebanese Students Association, Muslim Law Students Association, Parkland Muslim Students Association, NAACP, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative, SORF, Student American Civil Liberties Union, Student Peace Action, U-C Hip Hop Congress, and the Women's Direct Action Collective.

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