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Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Istanbul Calling: Hip-Hop in the Melting Pot | PopMatters

Istanbul Calling: Hip-Hop in the Melting Pot
By Imran Khan 6 August 2013

It could be argued that no musical culture has ever had an impact or affected influence over the world like hip-hop has. Rock and pop culture will always be synonymous, bridging the gap between entertainment and cultural fashion, but with hip-hop comes a sort of cultural ethic. Hip-hop hasn’t just reinvented and redefined the perimeters of pop culture, it’s moved beyond the small pockets of urban culture from whence it came more than 30 years ago to find life outside the cityscapes it was defined by.

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