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Rap Music and Street Consciousness (Music in American Life) by Cheryl Lynette Keyes Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2004 ISBN-10: 0-252-07201-4 / 0252072014 ISBN-13: 978-0-252-07201-7 / 9780252072017 In this first musicological history of rap music, Cheryl L. Keyes traces the genre's history from its roots in West African bardic traditions, the Jamaican dancehall tradition, and African American vernacular expressions to its permeation of the cultural mainstream as a major tenet of hip-hop lifest |