BUFFALO, NY – The Canisius University Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures presents director Henry Chalfant on Thursday, April 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Language Resource Center, Old Main 314. Chalfant will screen his documentary, From Mambo to Hip Hop: A Bronx Tale. The event is free and open to the public. A question and answer session will follow.
The film presents a panoramic view of the music that blossomed in the Latino community of the South Bronx from the late 1940s, when mambo burst onto the New York cultural scene, through the birth of hip hop in the 1970s. It chronicles two generations that grew up literally on the same streets and both used rhythm as their form of rebellion. For the older generation it was the pulsating rhythms of Cuba, for their children, it was the rhythms of rap.
The event is co-sponsored by Sigma Delta Pi and Hip Hop Dance Crew. For more information, contact Richard Reitsma, PhD, assistant professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, at (716) 888-2408 or @email.
Canisius University is one of 28 Jesuit universities in the nation and the premier private university in Western New York.
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