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Review | Rhymin' and Stealin': Musical Borrowing in Hip-Hop by Justin A. Williams

Submitted by Sarah Lappas on February 20, 2014 - 3:57pm

Rhymin’ and Stealin’: Musical Borrowing in Hip-Hop. By Justin A. Williams. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013. [viii, 256 p. ISBN 978-0-472-11892-2 $65.]

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