YNN: Film Screening and Open Forum for Youth

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Youth Noise Network Presents

HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes

Filmmaker Byron Hurt, a life-long hip-hop fan, was watching rap music videos on BET when he realized that each video was nearly identical. Guys in fancy cars threw money at the camera while scantily clad women danced in the background. As he discovered how stereotypical rap videos had become, Hurt, a former college quarterback turned activist, decided to make a film about the gender politics of hip-hop, the music and the culture that he grew up with. "The more I grew and the more I learned about sexism and violence and homophobia, the more those lyrics became unacceptable to me," he says. "And I began to become more conflicted about the music that I loved." The result is HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, a riveting documentary that tackles issues of masculinity, sexism, violence, and homophobia in today's hip-hop culture.

For more information, visit www.pbs.org/independentlens/hiphop/

Post-screening conversation facilitated by the Center for Race Relations.

Pizza, drinks, and dessert provided!

When: Saturday, April 12, 2008, 7–10 p.m.

Where: Center for Documentary Studies at Duke [Auditorium], 1317 West Pettigrew Street, Durham, NC 27705

Who: This screening is an OPEN FORUM FOR YOUTH who are interested in documentary work and contemporary social issues

For more information, contact Youth Noise Network: 919.660.3696 or tjwatson@duke.edu.

Sponsored by Youth Noise Network, the Duke Progressive Alliance, the Human Rights Working Group, the Duke Collaborative Event Fund, and the International Comparative Studies Program

Youth Noise Network (YNN) is a youth radio project based at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. YNN brings together a diverse group of Durham teenagers to produce a weekly radio show that addresses current issues of particular concern to teens. YNN participants learn various aspects of the documentary arts and produce their own audio documentaries.

www.youthnoisenetwork.org

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Photograph by Christopher Sims

Center for Documentary Studies
1317 W. Pettigrew Street
Durham, NC 27705

telephone: (919) 660-3663
fax: (919) 681-7600
email: docstudies@duke.edu

See: directions to the Center for Documentary Studies

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