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![Fifty One Fifty Performs](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: V 197Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This video contains concert footage of hip-hop group Fifty One Fifty performing at Marin City's Festival on the Green.
![Inventos - Hip Hop Cubano](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/2005Call Number: V 225Format: DVDProducers: Eli Jacobs-FantauzziCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Cuban Hip Hop provides a unique insight into the realities and politics of contemporary Cuba. Experience this as Inventos follows some of the pioneers of this musical movement to their homes, the stage and as they travel abroad for the first time. Inventos embodies the true spirit of Hip Hop, which is to build something that is powerful and useful out of what is seemingly impossible.
Just as Hip Hop in the U.S. began as a form of creative self expression bringing awareness to oppressive social conditions, Cuban Hip Hop demonstrates the innovative and indestructible spirit born from a people suppressed by the U.S. embargo on Cuba. Inventos, serves as a reminder of the political consciousness through which this music was created. Thirty years after its conception, and in spite of commercialisation, Hip Hop culture continues to give voice to people who refuse to be silenced, ignored and cut off from the larger society. The film shows how both cultures reflect similar social struggles and if brought together, could transcend cultural barriers and build a collective community dedicated to spreading messages of truth and empowerment globally.
![Inventos: Hip Hop Cubano](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: V 688Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This film documents contemporary Cuban hip hop. Cuban musicians are interviewed in their homes, on stage and on tour. Despite the US embargo, the film illustrates the creative and artistic spirit of the island.
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