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Rap: The Movement

By: Pancho McFarland & Leslie Baker Kimmons
In: Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society
Edited by: Richard T. Schaefer
Subject:Race & Ethnicity
Keywords:artists; Chicanos; gangsta rap; hip-hop; music; rap: the genre; women artists

Rap music is one of the few truly original U.S. cultural forms. Rap music emerged from Black American oral traditions and developed into the rhyming storytelling of urban life. Rap music is a significant part of U.S. music history that has ...

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  McFarland, P., & Kimmons, L. (2008). Rap: the movement. In R. T. Schaefer (Ed.), Encyclopedia of race, ethnicity, and society (Vol. 1, pp. 1124-1126). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412963879.n464
  
  McFarland, Pancho, and Leslie Baker Kimmons. "Rap: The Movement." In Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society, edited by Schaefer, Richard T., 1124-26. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412963879.n464.
  
  McFarland, P. and Kimmons, L. 2008. Rap: The Movement. In: Richard T. Schaefer Editor, 2008. Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 1124-1126 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412963879.n464> [Accessed 8 May 2021].
  
  McFarland, Pancho and Leslie Baker Kimmons. "Rap: The Movement." Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society. Edited by Richard T. Schaefer. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2008, pp. 1124-26. SAGE Knowledge. 8 May 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412963879.n464.
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