Summer of Music: Harlem Outdoor Music and Screening Series
100% Free
Brought to you with support from Target
Wednesday, July 6th, 7:00pm
Reel Harlem:
10th Annual Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival
Marcus Garvey Park
(Richard Rodgers Amphitheater: Behind Pelham Fritz Recreation Center,
Mt. Morris Park West at 122nd St.)
7:00pm Music: DJ Laylo & Eli Efi
(Hip Hop, Classics and Soul)
8:30pm Screening:
Jamel Shabazz: Street Photographer
Charlie Ahearn, 2011, 74 min.
In the infancy of hip-hop, Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz documented the pioneers of music and style that would initiate an unstoppable worldwide phenomenon. Ahearn, director of the classic Wild Style, pays tribute to both Shabazz and those who defined hip-hop before it had a definition. More than just vintage shots of kids rocking Puma Suedes, Kangols, and pin-striped Jordaches in Times Square or all-city, Shabazz’s photographs have hundreds of stories behind them, and Ahearn gives voice to these images with dozens of interviews with Shabazz himself, graffiti pioneer and hip-hop historian Fred “Fab 5 Freddy” Brathwaite, legendary rapper KRS-One, Bobbito Garcia and more.
Summer of Music in Harlem
Maysles Cinema Presents
Summer of Music: Harlem Outdoor Music and Screening Series
100% Free
Brought to you with support from Target
Wednesday, July 6th, 7:00pm
Reel Harlem:
10th Annual Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival
Marcus Garvey Park
(Richard Rodgers Amphitheater: Behind Pelham Fritz Recreation Center,
Mt. Morris Park West at 122nd St.)
7:00pm Music: DJ Laylo & Eli Efi
(Hip Hop, Classics and Soul)
8:30pm Screening:
Jamel Shabazz: Street Photographer
Charlie Ahearn, 2011, 74 min.
In the infancy of hip-hop, Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz documented the pioneers of music and style that would initiate an unstoppable worldwide phenomenon. Ahearn, director of the classic Wild Style, pays tribute to both Shabazz and those who defined hip-hop before it had a definition. More than just vintage shots of kids rocking Puma Suedes, Kangols, and pin-striped Jordaches in Times Square or all-city, Shabazz’s photographs have hundreds of stories behind them, and Ahearn gives voice to these images with dozens of interviews with Shabazz himself, graffiti pioneer and hip-hop historian Fred “Fab 5 Freddy” Brathwaite, legendary rapper KRS-One, Bobbito Garcia and more.
Jamel Shabazz: Street Photographer Trailer