Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Social Science Japan Journal

• Publication date

  2008-06-20

• Fields of study

  Art, Sociology, Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1093/SSJJ/JYN006
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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