Opening today at Mist Harlem cinemas for a 1-week run, courtesy of ArtMattan is Menelik Shabazz's The Story Of Lovers Rock. Call it a 90-minute trip down memory lane, Menelik Shabazz’s The Story Of Lovers Rock plays like a love letter to a style of music, the era in which it was born, those who were responsible for its creation, and those who embraced it, ensuring its longevity. From its beginnings in the mid-1970s, in the UK, as an offshoot of Reggae – a romantic brand of reggae as Shabazz put it, that would eventually become an internationally exploited style of music - Lovers Rock served both as a tool of empowerment for its fans – a group made up of mostly young black men...
- 4/19/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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