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William E. Smith Ph.D. (Author)

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July 6, 2006
There are many individuals who have upheld the art form of hip hop in the shadow of Washington DC's popular music, go-go. This is the story of one of those MC's, Priest da Nomad, in historical, musicological, and anthropological context.

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Hip hop has definitive links with African performance elements and musical techniques that are traceable through the well-documented characteristics of Africanisms outlined by Henry Louis Gates (1988), Portia Maultsby and Joseph Holloway (1990), Eileen Southern (1971), and others. Read the first page
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