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Initially it may seem a stretch to imagine Harlem Renaissance writer, Zora Neale Hurston tapping her toes, bobbing her head and reciting the lyrics to hip-hop songs. Yet there is a vital connection between Hurston and hip-hop culture, which was revealed following the, “Zora Neale Hurston” play presented as part of The National Black Touring Circuit’s Black History Month Play Festival at the Castillo Theatre.
After Kim Brockington’s tour de force performance of Hurston she explained that the latter’s use of colloquialism is the equivalent to hip-hop’s popularization of slang. “The Harlem Renaissance like hip-hop created words and it became a whole new language,” she says. “Zora would love hip-hop since she was of that tradition.”
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