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From Public Enemy to Power Broker: Hip-Hop’s the New Global Pop Culture

Music Power

More than 25 years after N.W.A. rapped ‘fuck tha police,’ the musical genre of America’s urban culture has become powerful and global.

Lauren DeLisa Coleman
Lauren DeLisa Coleman
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Lauren DeLisa Coleman

Lauren DeLisa Coleman

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