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The hip-hop corners and be-bop curvers of a community shaped by the spoken word : investigating the connection between hip-hop poetry and the Black arts movement by Dennis Lamount Winston
Call Number: LD3914.N7 W563 2004 Archives
Investigates and discusses the cultural and textual linkage between the poetry of the Black Arts Movement (BAM), represented by poet Haki Madhubuti, and hip-hop poetry, represented by hip-hop artist Mos Def. Connections specifically investigated within the black experience are music, setting, theme, language/dialect, community, and performance/style