Date
Saturday 28 June 2008 at 11:00am
Location
Custard Factory
Gibb Square,
Birmingham,
B9 4AA,
United Kingdom
Tel: 0121 224 7777
Link
Description
Following on from the success of DJs and BBoys for Life Conference’s, Punch presents `MCs for Life’ on Saturday 28th June 2008
This exciting event will be celebrating the very best in MC culture and heritage.
MCing represents the ultimate expression of attitude in popular culture and in recent years has become the most prominent of the four main elements of hip-hop.
Comprised of discussion panels, masterclasses, films and battles, ‘MCs for Life’ seeks to identify the role of the MC within hip-hop. For example, the development of the MC, from the ‘toasting’ with Jamaican sound systems to the birth of hip-hop when MC’s would toast over a breakbeat.
Changes in language and styles of rap and the international distillation of rap such as Grime (London), Hip Life (Ghana), Timba (Cuba), Kuduro(Angola) and Kwaito (South Africa) will also be looked at.
Performances will be in the evening.
Tickets: www.theticketsellers.co.uk
£15 all day £8 Conference only £12 afterparty only.
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