“The Chain Remain the Same” Communicative Practices in the Hip Hop Nation
Open Access
- 1 September 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Black Studies
- Vol. 28 (1), 3-25
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002193479702800101
Abstract
It is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace.Keywords
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