BOOK EVENT: To Pimp a Butterfly 33 1/3 w/ Sequoia Maner & Def Sound

WHO & WHAT: Join Rep Club for a discussion on with author Sequoia Maner & moderator Def Sound

WHEN: Doors at 6:30pm, event promptly at 7pm.

WHERE: Reparations Club, 3054 S. Victoria Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90016

HOW:

TICKET w/ BOOK: This ticket guarantees a seat including a signed book available for pick up at the event.

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About the Book:

Breaking the global record for streams in a single day, nearly 10 million people around the world tuned in to hear Kendrick Lamar's sophomore album in the hours after its release. To Pimp a Butterfly was widely hailed as an instant classic, garnering laudatory album reviews, many awards, and even a canonized place in Harvard's W. E. B. Du Bois archive. Why did this strangely compelling record stimulate the emotions and imaginations of listeners?

This book takes a deep dive into the sounds, images, and lyrics of To Pimp a Butterfly to suggest that Kendrick appeals to the psyche of a nation in crisis and embraces the development of a radical political conscience. Kendrick breathes fresh life into the Black musical protest tradition and cultivates a platform for loving resistance. Combining funk, jazz, and spoken word, To Pimp a Butterfly's expansive sonic and lyrical geography brings a high level of innovation to rap music. More importantly, Kendrick's introspective and philosophical songs compel us to believe in a future where, perhaps, we gon' be alright.

Sequoia Maner is Assistant Professor of English at Spelman College, USA. She is the author of the poetry collection Little Girl Blue (2021) and co-editor of the book Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era (2020). Her poem "upon reading the autopsy of Sandra Bland" was a finalist for the 2017 Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize. Her essays, poems, and reviews can be found in venues such as Meridians, Obsidian, The Langston Hughes Review, The Feminist Wire, Auburn Avenue, and elsewhere.

Def Sound (pronouns they/them) is an Afro-Caribbean conceptual word artist born and based in South Central LA. Def is a postbinary contemporary hip-hop artist, producer, poet, and award-winning academic. Def is Grammy nominated for their work as a producer on aja monet’s debut album ‘when the poems do what they do’.Def’s work as a poet has been included in Saul Williams' Anthology CHORUS, while their music has been featured in Season 4 of ABC’s Grownish, LA WEEKLY, LA Record, The L.A. Times, The Frieze Art Fair, LACMA’s Poetry series POETRY In Color, the art exhibition The Black Index curated by Bridget Cooks, the Emmy Nominated Television series Music Diaries, and the Emmy winning Artboundon KCET. Most recently Def has been published in Katie Mitchell's book PROSE TO THE PEOPLE, a love letter to all Black bookstores with a foreword by Nikki Giovanni. Def is a RE•memberer and word worker whose favorite medium is memory. When speaking about their practice Def shared, “Every truth is a dare. Let's dare to tell it.”

Def synthesizes Hip Hop, poetry, Black critical theory and storytelling into healing mechanisms decorating time and space. Def is currently a professor teaching Sonic Collage, Hip Hop Theory & Praxis, and Black Critical Theory at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Def’s latest album's & SHEESH! were both up for Grammy consideration for Best Rap Album of 2024 and are out now on vinyl and all streaming platforms.

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