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  “The Persistence of “Wild Style”: Hip-Hop and Music Video Culture at the Intersection of Performance and Provocation

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  Michele Prettyman Mercer University

  April 30, 2020

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  times wielded bluntly, while at others nuanced and precise. Beginning in the twentieth century, ...
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  Tickling the Ivory Towers

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  Ted Friedman Georgia State University

  February 07, 2011

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  Tickling the Ivory Towers popular music pop music musicology music videos MTV Madonna cultural studies academia Curator's Note Pop music and academia have a chequered history. MTV and American cultural studies grew up together in the 1980s. Critics l ...
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  Erasure and Glorification: Competing Representations of "Flyover Country"

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  Anthony Harkins Western Kentucky University

  January 06, 2014

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  Erasure and Glorification: Competing Representations of "Flyover Country" music videos maps Flyover States and Representations of the U.S. Midwest Curator's Note The development of cross country air and Interstate highway travel over the co ...