Shortly after thatcher's election, regan's ascension to the us Presidency reinforced her philosophy. She blocked detfor ness and measures to control the influence of private business on global politics. And it is against this backdrop that hippop was born. A tradition so powerful that the c i, a back proliferation of crack cocane throughout the black community, couldn't stop it. Hippop came from the street culture of an oppressed, displaced peop one came from the top down. The other from the ground up. It's not just shakespeare's work that needs to be studied before its fully understood.
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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