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We round out this issue with articles regarding decidedly twenty-first century concerns: communication

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Rap Music and Street Consciousness Constance R. Hebert " Filled with compelling personalIn 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 lifestyle and culture. Rap music, according to Keyes, is a forum that addresses the political and economic disfranchisement of black youths and other groups,