A Lecture by New York spoken word poet, Bob McNeil: From Africa to Hip Hop

This program will celebrate music from Africa to American hip hop. Through essays, poems, stories and quotes the audience is going to hear the history of music. Bob McNeil recalls reading A Child’s Garden of Verses at the age of six. As a result, a love of all things poetical bloomed. Later in life, the Imagists and Negritude Movement nurtured him. Tenaciously, Bob McNeil tries to compose poetic stun guns and Tasers, weapons for the downtrodden in their effort to trounce oppression. His verses want to be fortresses against despotic politics. After years of being a professional illustrator, spoken word artist and writer, Bob's work still express one cause—justice.