Overview: Maps out a 50-year political narrative of three eras of local discourse starting in mid-1960s West Oakland.Advances our understanding of underground rap music and politics in Oakland.Creates a model f.Rap and Politics .maps out fifty years of political and musical development by exploring three specific moments of local discourse, each a response to failures by local, state, and national governments to address police brutality, violence, poverty, and poor social conditions in Oakland, California and the surrounding Bay Area. First, in the mid-1960s, Black youth responded to repressiv
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