Review of Kajikawa, Loren. 2015. Sounding Race in Rap Songs. Oak-land: University of California Press.
In 1991, Scott Deveaux warned that an “official history of jazz had taken hold,” aided and abetted by the work of academics. From a “chaotic di-versity of style and expression” came a “coherent whole, . . . a skillfully contrived and easily comprehended narrative” (525). Deveaux attributed this prim...
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Columbia University Libraries
2017-04-01
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| Series: | Current Musicology |
| Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5349 |