Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop Power Moves

Name: Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop Power Moves
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ISBN: 9780230609617

ISBN-10: 0230609619

ISBN-13: 9780230609617

Edition: 2007

Authors: Halifu Osumare

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This book explores how a vital, expressive culture, which began in a New York black and Latino impoverished working-class community, has become a global delineating sign of the new millennium.

Book details

List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 7/14/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 219
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.53" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Halifu Osumare is Assistant Professor, African America and African Studies Program, University of California, Davis.



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