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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) Empowering self, making choices, creating spaces: Black female identity via rap music performance
Critics and scholars have often associated rap music with urban male culture. However, females have been involved in the history of this music since its ......(Continue Reading)Gangsta Rap
Gangsta rap is the most controversial style of the rap music genre. It has achieved global prominence through its vivid sexist, misogynistic, ......(Continue Reading)The words of music
Introduction Words and music are two distinct symbolic modes. Yet, as human ways of communication or forms of expression, they have much in common....(Continue Reading)Louder than bombs: a profile of Michael Franti - rap singer - Interview
"You can bomb the world to pieces but you can't bomb it into peace," sings hip-hop artist Michael Franti. He and his group, Spearhead, are the rare musicians speaking out for peace in this time of...(Continue Reading)
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