Please join us on Thursday February 11, for a film screening of the documentary "Is it Sweet? Tales of an African Superstar in New York" with director Jesse Weaver Shipley,
Please join us on Thursday February 11, for a film screening of the documentary "Is it Sweet? Tales of an African Superstar in New York" with director Jesse Weaver Shipley,
Luce Hall room 202, from 4-6 pm
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Professor Shipley.
"Reggie Rockstone is a celebrity and star rap musician in Accra, Ghana where he inspired a young generation of musicians and continues to draw huge crowds. But when he comes to New York to play for the Ghanaian community, he experiences the unexpected humor, struggles, and pleasures of life as an anonymous African superstar on the fringes of a cosmopolitan American city. This film is an experimental documentary built around the spaces, humor, and sounds of African hip-hop music in America. It presents a series of intimate portraits of Reggie and his group of collaborators and friends as they travel, perform, and debate politics, race, and stardom. Is It Sweet? is a follow-up to director Jesse Weaver Shipley’s Living the Hiplife which documents the birth of popular hiplife and hip-hop music in Accra, Ghana, by following Reggie Rockstone’s rise to fame, in the process examining political and social transformation for a youth generation in Ghana."
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