“This is a momentous occasion for UB,” says Bronwyn Keenan, director of UB’s Arts Collaboratory, an innovative strategic initiative in the College of Arts and Sciences that fosters collaboration and experimentation across the university and the surrounding Western New York community. The UB Arts Collaboratory Working Artists Lab with Grandmaster Flash is presented in partnership with the UB departments of Theatre and Dance and Art, IACE International Artistic & Cultural Exchange Program, the departments of Theatre and Africana Studies at SUNY Buffalo State, and FITZ Books. The fall 2021 lab will be the first time Flash has worked directly with university students in a revolutionary career punctuated by multiple awards, including a Grammy, a Lifetime Achievement recognition from the Urban Music Awards, a BET Hip Hop Award and Sweden’s Polar Prize, which the BBC has called the “Nobel Prize of Music.” That new musical vocabulary propelled hip-hop as an art form that became part of a sweeping cultural phenomenon whose growth and influence is as great as any musical development to come out of the 20th century. He created an entirely new way of making music, as a DJ backspinning records, cutting and scratching. Grandmaster Flash in the 1970s emerged as one of hip-hop’s trendsetting innovators. For the next generation to take music and art in new directions, they have to know where that music and art came from, who made it and how.” “It’s important that we get this history right. The places and the moments,” says Grandmaster Flash. “The residency at UB gives me a chance to tell hip-hop’s whole story.
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He will direct the next Working Artists Lab as part of a full semester of hip-hop inspired programming presented by the university’s Arts Collaboratory. Grandmaster Flash, one of the virtuoso creators of hip-hop and leader of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, the genre’s first act to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, will be in residence at UB this fall.
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