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SUMMARY:Lover's Rock - Q&amp\;A with Director\, Menelik Shabazz
DTSTART:20121031T193000Z
DTEND:20121031T210000Z
UID:TALK39927@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Equality &amp\; Diversity
DESCRIPTION:AWARD WINNING UK DIRECTOR REVIVES LOVERS ROCK MUSIC WITH NEW D
 OCUMENTARY\n\nThe Story of Lovers Rock is a new documentary film that tell
 s the story of how Lovers Rock music defined a generation in the late 70s 
 and 80s hugely impacting on British Pop Culture. The film is produced and 
 directed by award winning director/producer Menelik Shabazz.\nThe feature 
 length documentary contains interviews\, comedy sketches\, dance\, live pe
 rformances and archive footage which are used to shed light on the music a
 nd the generation that embraced it.\n\nLovers Rock often dubbed romantic r
 eggae is a unique British sound\, the genre developed against a backdrop o
 f racial tension\, the Brixton riots and sound systems in the late 70s and
  80s. It went from a small UK scene to become a global phenomenon through 
 artists like UB40 and Maxi Priest.\n\nShabazz stated.\n\n"The film connect
 s the music with the children of that era\, a generation whose story has r
 arely been told. Lovers Rock was significant because it provided the space
  for young people to share intimate feelings through dance which is absent
  with today's generation".\n\nDespite international success the genre has 
 been hugely ignored by the British mainstream. Yet the music went on to in
 fluence a number of successful bands in the 80s like Culture Club\, Sade\,
  and the Police. Lovers Rock helped to bridge a multicultural gap that pol
 arized the times.\n\nThe list of contributors include UB40\, Maxi Priest\,
  Levi Roots\, Linton Kwesi Johnson\, comedians Angie Le Mar\, Robbie G\, E
 ddies Nestor alongside new artists like Ava Leigh and Lovella Ellis.\n\nTo
 day the music is being embraced by young talent like Ava Leigh and Lovella
  Ellis\, daughter of the legendary reggae artist Alton Ellis.\n\nAva said 
 "Lovers rock is the first genre of reggae I had ever heard\; we come from 
 a small town called Chester\, up North\, where there is no reggae scene\, 
 or any music scene. So the first time I heard that genre was my mum\, my m
 um really loved Lovers Rock".\n\nFilm trailer at:  http://www.youtube.com/
 watch?v=TiJof_zx2Ukhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/sep/22/lovers-rock
 -story-reggae\n\n
LOCATION:Keynes Hall\, King's College\, Cambridge
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