An edition of Rap Music and Street Consciousness (Music in American Life)
(2002)
Rap Music and Street Consciousness (Music in American Life)
by Cheryl L. Keyes
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"Traces the genre's history from its roots in West African bardic traditions, the Jamaican dancehall tradition, and African American vernacular expressions to its permeation of the cultural mainstream as a major tenet of the hip-hop style."--cover.
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Rap Music and Street Consciousness (Music in American Life)
March 5, 2004, University of Illinois Press
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October 22, 2002, University of Illinois Press
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"Most critics and scholars concur that rap music is a confluence of African American and Caribbean cultural expressions, such as sermons, blues, game songs, and toasts and toasting-all of which are recited in a chanted rhyme or poetic fashion."
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