Word: baffing
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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More than 500 people crowded into the ARCO Forum Friday for a panel discussion on the appropriation of black music by popular culture. The event, which kicked off the weekend-long sixth annual Black Arts Festival (BAF), focused on a discussion of who “owns” jazz, rock and roll...
...discussion was the first event in the weekend’s series of BAF performances, art exhibits, workshops and movie screenings...
...Kuumba Singers of Harvard College started the festival in 1998 as a fund-raiser, according to the BAF website, but it has grown significantly since then, attracting guests such as the hip-hop group The Roots and spoken word performer Sonia Sanchez...
Citing past negligence in shying away from black homosexuals in the arts, she says that the BAF hopes to increase awareness about homosexuality in relation to filmmaking...
...addition to professional independent films, the festival, held at the Harvard Film Archive in the Carpenter Center on Sunday, will culminate with a student film competition. The BAF received hundreds of submissions from students of all universities and will give three student awards...