Rap concerts on the other hand seem to attract a crowd which is more multicultural and diverse. Unlike some of our racial physical aspects, our taste isn’t given to us by birth, so what exactly makes music and race-ethnicity stick together in such a way? And since Elvis Presley “whitewashed” rock music in the 1950s, what has changed? Is there still much inequality in music scenes or is Elvis finally leaving the building?
The department of Arts and Culture Studies, Erasmus SG, WORM, City of Rotterdam, NWO, Pantropical organize an interactive debate evening regarding this relevant and interesting theme.
MUSIC> TABANKA
A Rotterdam based group that plays Cape Verdean funaná style music and will make you dance like nobody’s watching
DEBATE
Karl Spracklen (Leeds Beckett University)
Jo Haynes (University of Bristol)
Linde Murugan(Northwestern University)
Experts from the field
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