[SCA-BMDL] "The Rap Canterbury Tales" November 8th

[Ashley Capps]

The University of Pittsburgh Program in Medieval and Renaissance
Studies presents Baba Brinkman in

"The Rap Canterbury Tales"

Wednesday, November 8th at 4:30, CL 1228

Baba Brinkman's solo performance, "The Rap Canterbury Tales," first
appeared at the Edinburgh Festival in 2004.  It is a re-creation of
Chaucer's fourteenth century poem, in which a group of pilgrims
traveling from London to Canterbury enter into a tale-telling contest.
 At Pitt, Brinkman will perform The Miller's Tale, the Pardoner's
Tale, and the
Wife of Bath's Tale in hiphop style. He will also relate the history
of hiphop culture and freestyle battling to Chaucer's storytelling
competition and his treatment of poetic form in The Canterbury Tales.

This event is generously co-sponsored by the School of Arts and
Sciences, the Department of English, the Program for Cultural Studies,
and the Poetry Club.

For more information please contact Jennifer Waldron (jwaldron at pitt.edu)