Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes (2005)
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Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes provides a riveting examination of manhood, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture. Director Byron Hurt, former star college quarterback, longtime hip-hop fan, and gender violence prevention educator, conceived the documentary as a "loving critique" of a number of disturbing trends in the world of rap music. He pays tribute to hip-hop while challenging the rap music industry to take responsibility for glamorizing destructive, deeply conservative stereotypes of
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Although he occasionally errs on the side of overstating the obvious, filmmaker Byron Hunt offers some provocative morsels of food for though.
Top CriticHurt asks all the right questions regarding these social issues in the scene but many times, the answers come up short. It's a fascinating subject rarely explored in the depth this short documentary submerges in.
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[left][i]Beyond Beats and Rhymes[/i] is an important addition to the genre of critiquing black masculinity. Here Byron Hurt questions the influence of hip-hop music on systemic American sexism, racism, and homophobia. He interviews industry insiders, the actual performers, progressive intellectuals, and consumers of the product and its subtextual ideology. It's
I have seen the film a handful of times. Although I would have done this willingly, I have seen it so many times because I just finished subtitling it for its DVD released by the Media Education Foundation. It is going to play on PBS in January. There it will be called [i]Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes[/i].
I am also subtitling his prior film [i]I Am a Man[/i], also scheduled for a nearby release. It isn't as tight as [i]BBR[/i], but it still has the content to stimulate college classrooms for semesters to come.
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[i]this is byron hurt. salute him.[/i]
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SUNDANCE: Interview with "Beyond Beats and Rhymes" Director Byron HurtWhen Byron Hurt quit his job and drove to New York, he had $3,000 to his name and virtually no...
January 26, 2006:
SUNDANCE: "Beyond Beats and Rhymes" ReviewHip-Hop Documentary Questions the Future of Music at Sundance. Sexism and violence do not...
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- Beyond Beats and Rhymes: A Hip-Hop Head Weighs in on Manhood in Hip-Hop Culture (DE)
- Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes (UK)
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