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THE RAP ON 'RAP' : Yo, where's the melody? - place of rap music in popular culture
In his article, "Yo Comma Dog" (New Yorker, March 12), about the illegal gun possession trial of Sean "Puffy" Combs, Adam Gopnik makes a statement that ......(Continue Reading) Getting a Bad Rap? - offensive lyrics in rap music - Brief Article
"MY MOTHER DID DRUGS --tar, liquor, cigarettes, and speed/The baby came out--disfigured .../It was a seed who would grow up just as crazy as she/Don't ......(Continue Reading)Cal State music professor sues rap group for copyright infringement; case opens up new debate on intellectual property rights - Faculty Club - James Newton
James Newton, a triple threat composer-performer-educator who has been showered with awards and commissions for his innovative work in the worlds of ......(Continue Reading)Spaghetti funk: appropriations of hip-hop culture and rap music in Europe
Introduction In the past twenty years, hip-hop culture and especially its most popular form of expression, rap music, have spread "from the margins ......(Continue Reading)Princes among thieves: sampling the '80s - hip hop music
I don't recall that the vogue lasted for more than a few years, but one of the things many of us did in the 1980s was to put a music sample on our answering ......(Continue Reading)
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