Hippop avoids this problem for a few reasons. It uses modern language, it deals with life in real time, and it is musical. These three factors make up hippop super power which can best be expressed like this. Before you understand it, you feel it. See the different to get into hippop,. We're not sat in a room and dictate it to we don't have to spend a hundred pound plus on a theatre ticket. You just have to follow the curiosity that the music provokes. Some would have you believe that hippops attractiveness is in its shock value, its obsession with sex and violence. I trust i'm talking to an audience that understands these as thematic
Created in partnership with Sotheby's, in a debate that spans the centuries, Peabody Award-winning spoken word performer George the Poet and Booker Prize-winning author Howard Jacobson go head-to-head over which form of cultural expression best resonates now and forever. Does hip-hop and slam poetry speak more to society than historical texts that require background knowledge to be fully understood? Or does the lasting appeal of Shakespeare and other great figures from the canon show that some works have a universal value that stands the test of time?
This event was recorded on the 9th of June 2022, at Sotheby's in London and produced by Executive Producer Hannah Kaye and Audience Development Producer Yosola Olorunshola
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