Re: <nettime> hip hop (in)digestion

[Are Flagan <areflagan@artpanorama.com>]

[Hip or not; some may find this recent article of interest -- too. -af]

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Hip Hop Hysteria 
By  Salim Muwakkil, In These Times
January 7, 2003 

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14900

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"The Eminem saga is yet another lesson about the potential power of hip hop.
Like the legion of other whites, Asians and Latinos who embrace hip hop,
Eminem has a relationship with black culture that is so far removed from
racist traditions that it creates new possibilities. That's the promise of
hip hop: creating new possibilities.

This musical genre dreamed up on the streets of New York has become one of
the planet's most powerful  ­  and enthusiastically embraced  ­  forces of
globalization. If hip hop's originators can harness just a portion of the
genre's creative power to address the issues that uniquely beset them, hip
hop can redeem its promise."

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