Trouble dans le gangsta-rap : quand des rappeuses s’approprient une esthétique masculine by Keivan Djavadzadeh

“…This article traces the process through which female rappers in the 1990s reclaimed gangsta-rap music, a genre that emerged in the 1980s. Gangsta-rap music ambivalently allowed some Black men to reach some forms of public recognition. …”
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Retracted: Prenatal Exposure to Classical Music Improves Learning and Memory in Adult Rats <subtitle>Possible Anxiolytic or Antistress Effects</subtitle> by Yuantian Zhang, Morvarid Vatanpour, Marjan Vatanpour, Sepideh Tayyebi, Omid Baghani, Maliheh Abbasnejad

“…Methods: In these experiments, we examined the effects of exposure to silence, hard rock, classical, and rap music in utero plus 60 days postpartum on learning and memory in adult Wistar rats. …”
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L’alternance codique dans le rap algérien et tunisien by Felix Wiedemann

“…Hip-hop culture in general and especially rap music are important ways of expression for urban Algerian and Tunisian youths. …”
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African-American Music in the Service of White Nationalists: Polish “Patriotic Rap” as a Pop Cultural Tool to Promote National Values by Piotr Majewski

“…In today’s world, cultural products, technologies, information and ideologies easily transcend national borders, and the history of the internationalization of rap music is a good example of this phenomenon. Rap has not only become a symbol of the IT revolution and the prevalence of the western capitalist business practices, but also a cultural tool used by some marginalized groups to express their identity. …”
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Quantitative Influence Analysis of the Development Scale of Market Economy on the Level of Music Innovation by Yang Li, Qiuyi Zhang, Tianzhuo Gong

“…This research mainly uses a convolutional neural network and long and short-term memory neural network technology to quantitatively analyze the relationship between the development scale of the market economy and the form of music innovation, which is mainly a quantitative analysis of classical music, pop music, and rap music. The research results show that convolutional neural networks and long short-term memory neural networks have sufficient capabilities to quantitatively analyze the relationship between the market development scale and the form of music innovation. …”
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Quando as ruas abrigam a arte: a cena hip hop no Recife (1980-2014) by Cristiano Nunes Alves

“…A timeline for hip hop in the Recife region is suggested, emphasizing two structural moments for this street culture: initially disseminated by black music parties and break dancing – hip hop's body language –, the establishment of this movement culminated in the current situation around the mid-1990s, since when rap music has been dominating the Hip Hop Scene in the Recife region. …”
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