NYU Performance Studies Spotlight: Farai Bere
FARAI WONDERFUL BERE is a 5th year PhD candidate in the Department of Performance Studies at NYU. He is currently in the final stages of writing his dissertation entitled Urban Grooves: The Performance of Politics in Zimbabwe's Hip Hop Music. For the last two years he has been a Teaching Assistant for the university's Tisch Special Programs course, Topics in South African Culture. He taught theater for four years at the University of Zimbabwe before leaving for New York University where his special areas are African and Afro-Diasporic Music and Orature. A man of diverse persuits, he is an African Hip Hop musician, fusing Hip Hop, reggaeton and dancehall beats with African traditional mbira rhythms, a filmmaker and theater practitioner. He is working on a documentary film Toyi Toyi Hip Hop: Politics in Urban Music in Zimbabwe, a project which has become a site of intersection for his academic and music pursuits. For more information on his artistic pursuits see his webpage www.myspace.com/threeonline.
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Thanks for the link, i just stumbled across it as I was gathering some research on zimbabwean music.
Keep up the good work.
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Mayowa |
10/31/2007