Guest Editor's Introduction: Edu-tainment: Popular Culture in the Making of Schools for the 21st Century

Abstract

As we head into the 21st century, rap music/hip-hop is in the earth-wide sound stream, the child of soul, R & B and rock n roll, the by-product of the strategic marketing of Big Business, ready to pulse out to the millions on the wild, wild web. It's difficult to stop a cultural revolution that bridges people together.

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