Hip-Hop Matters Creating Yourself

Hip-Hop Matters Creating YourselfAvoiding the easy definitions and caricatures that tend to celebrate or condemn the hip hop generation, Hip Hop Matters focuses on fierce and far reaching battles being waged in politics, pop culture, and academe to assert control over the movement. At stake, Watkins argues, is the impact hip hop has on the lives of the young people who live and breathe the culture. He presents incisive analysis of the corporate takeover of hip hop and the rampant

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• Encourage Critical Thinking: Use music as a lens for cultural exploration

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