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RBG Street Scholars Think Tank's Purpose: This Educational Program and Research Project is Dedicated to Further Building the Hip Hop--Black Liberation Movement Connection by Integrating Conscious Digital Edutainment with A Scholarly... [more]
RBG Street Scholars Think Tank's Purpose:
This Educational Program and Research Project is Dedicated to Further Building the Hip Hop--Black Liberation Movement Connection by Integrating Conscious Digital Edutainment with A Scholarly Self Directed Learning Environment.
N.B. June 3, 2007: From this point forward all post in the article /group blog section without thumbnails will be delete by the editor/RBG Street Scholar. This is because such posts compromise the formating of the zine. Furthermore, we refuse to get side tracked with eurocentric rap/pop culture. So, if posts don't jell with the RBG Movement / Rap Genre and the academic nature of the zine,again, they will be deleted. This is not a democracy, but an educational research project; and as such we intend to stay on point regarding our edutainment mission, goals and objectives. Please don't allow the title to make you get it twisted, the full title is RBG Hip Hop/Conscious Rap Music Wikizine.
Anyone who has a problem with this please start your own zine, it's free.
Asante(Thank You) for your contributions.
This Zine is a Hip Hop / Rap Music guide with photos,audio, videos, links, feeds, news, comments, group blog and forum. Special focus on Hip Hop History, Underground /Indie and the Positive and Socio-politically Conscious Rap Genre / Artists, RBG Style; along with links and extensions to each of the integral aspects of hip hop culture. Including Knowledge, DJing, MCing, Break Dancing and Graffiti.
Please take some time to browse.Your contributions are welcome and encouraged if you're looking for a scholarly, and at the same time entertaining, place to expose your work and help build a comprehensive multi-media resource for others to learn from. It's what we make it--a project in evolution and always under construction.The more of us that have something to share on the subject contribute, the better this resource will be for those wanting to do research.
"Of All The Disciplines Of Study, History Is Best Qualified To Reward All Research". Thus, let's commence the discourse with a brief historical overview.
The Political Origins of Hip-hop:
> Historically poetry/ rap/ spoken word, literature and music have been combine to play a pivotal role in black progress and power, rebellion, revolt and revolution.
Political Rap Started With the Afrikan Talking Drum.
> Because of the perceived potential of talking drums to "speak" in a tongue unknown to slave masters / traders and thus to incite rebellion, in 1838 these and other drums were banned from use by Africans in the United States.
> H “Rap” Brown, known to many of the 1960's/70's Civil Rights and Black Power Movements as the original master rapper. Rap, a given nickname, comes from his being such an eloquent speaker he would be rappin. For more see Dr. Errol Henderson on Black Nationalism and Rap Music and our Hip Hop Audio History.
RBG Praylu Productions: A Real Live Shackle Breaker
Praylu's main EduTainment concentrations have been in the area of video production--with special focus on the Black Panther Party, Tupac and Issues Concerning the Motherland. His latest works, ReEducation Vol 1 and Blood Diamonds are two of the most powerful teaching tools I have ever encounted in this new era of video education. I have told him on several occassions and I will say it again here, " he is a consciousness raising trailblazer, master technician and shakle breaker of the highest standard--I respect his committment highly, luv his work and welcome him to the community as a Lead Instructor.
Please check out all his productions if you want to know what the essence of eduTainment at RBG Street Scholars Think Tank is all about.
"Culturally Specific Video Producion"
Education- Video Production Style
"Guru Praylu"
Click his Poster to enter his world here at RBG.
Name: Praylu@gmail.com
Occupation: Director/Editor/Educator
Companies: Praylu Productions
Interests and Hobbies: - Poetry Film Philosophy Directing Underground Hip-Hop Writing Lyrics Reading Video Editing Mixing
Music: Rhythm And Poetry
Books: Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Fingerprints of the Gods, The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, The Rose That Grew From Concrete, Tupac Shakur: Legacy, Bolivian Diaries, Che, Revolutionary Suicide, and more
ONCE UPON A TIME WHEN WE WERE COLORED .......... "Race Films" and "All-Black Cast" movies were shown in these "Colored" movie Houses. In small Southern "Colored Movie Houses" movies were shown between 12 midnight until 2am. This was referred to as a "Midnight Ramble". These films were made by Black Independent film makers for Black audiences. Because of their exclusion from the mainstream movie industry, Independent film makers such as author-director Oscar Micheaux, known as the "Dean of Black Film Makers", began to form their own production companies making films with entirely African American cast and crew.Form: Midnight Ramble Video
From: rbg-street-scholar-multi-media-e-zine.blogspot.com
As we conscious Afrikans in the Amerikkkas are well aware, the gatekeeper, maintainer and upholder of the system and business white supremacy is their media; including books, TV, radio, newspapers, magazines etc. One of the overall purposes of this extensive discourse in the form of RBG Street Scholars Think Tank is to counter these psychologically incarcerating tools of oppression. A main influences and model for our work has been the great African-American filmmaker and writer Oscar Micheaux.
Important Term Defined: The race movie or race film was a cinematic genre which existed in the United States between about 1915 and 1945. It consisted of films produced for an all-black audience, featuring black casts.
From Wikipedia
In all, approximately five hundred race films were produced. Of these, fewer than one hundred remain. Because race films were produced outside of the Hollywood studio system, they have been largely forgotten by mainstream film historians. Nevertheless, in their day, race films were very popular among African American theatergoers, and their influence continues to be felt in cinema and television marketed to African Americans.
Cledisson Jules (1993 –1951) was a pioneering African American author and filmmaker, and without a doubt the most famous producer of race films.
Micheaux (or sometimes written as "Michaux"), was born near Metropolis, Illinois and grew up in Great Bend, Kansas, one of eleven children of former slaves. As a young boy he shined shoes and worked as a porter on the railway. As a young man, he very successfully homesteaded a farm in an all-white area of South Dakota where he began writing stories. Given the attitudes and restrictions on black people at the time, Micheaux overcame them by forming his own publishing company to buy his books door-to-house.
The advent of the motion picture industry intrigued him as a vehicle to tell his stories. He formed his own movie production company and in 1919 became the first African-American to make a film. He wrote, directed and produced the silent motion picture The Homesteader, starring the pioneering African American actress Evelyn Preer and based on his novel of the same name. He again used autobiographical elements in The Exile, his first feature film with sound, in which the central character leaves Chicago to buy and operate a ranch in South Dakota. In 1924 he introduced the moviegoing world to Paul Robeson in his film, Body and Soul.
Given the times, his accomplishments in publishing and film are extraordinary, including being the first African-American to produce a film to be shown in "white" movie theaters. In his motion pictures, he moved away from the "Negro" stereotypes being portrayed in film at the time. Additionally, in his film Within Our Gates, Micheaux attacked the racism depicted in D.W. Griffith's film, The Birth of a Nation.
The Producers Guild of America called him "The most prolific black - if not most prolific independent - filmmaker in American cinema." Over his illustrious career, Cledisson Micheaux wrote, produced and directed forty-four feature-length films between 1919 and 1948 and wrote seven novels, one of which was a national bestseller.
Micheaux died in Charlotte, North Carolina while on a business trip. His body was returned to Great Bend, Kansas, where he was interred in the Great Bend cemetery with other members of his family.
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