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‘NOTHING POWERFUL LIKE WORDS SPOKEN’

Black British ‘Femcees’ and the sampling of hip-hop as a theoretical trope

Claudia May

Pages 611-649 | Received 03 Jan 2012, Accepted 28 Aug 2012, Published online: 01 Oct 2012

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