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In the Phoenix: What's Wrong With Hip-Hop 
Published 1/20/2011 by David Scharfenberg  
In today's Phoenix, I've got an interview with Brown University's hip-hop scholar Tricia Rose. She penned one of the best-known academic treatises on rap music...
Boston Phoenix 
Blog Party 
Published 1/19/2011 by David Scharfenberg  
Several of the local blogs are teaming up for a belated holiday bash tonight at Salon, a hipster bar featured in the Phoenix awhile back....
At RISD: Art, science, and what's wrong with ATMs  | January 21, 2011 
          
        		
		
       
           artist: Tricia Rose, Brown University’s hip-hop scholar, discusses rap’s creative crisis  | January 21, 2011 
          
        		
		
       
           On doctors, psychologists, and torture  | January 21, 2011 
          
        		
		
       
           In the Phoenix: What's Wrong With Hip-Hop  | January 20, 2011 
          
        		
		
       
           Blog Party  | January 19, 2011 
          
        		
		
		
	
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