The meeting of sacred and profane in New York's music: Robert Moses, Lincoln Center, and hip-hop

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Robert Moses's career as New York, NY's builder produced dozens of large parks, miles of parkways, expressways and seven bridges. The Lincoln Center, one of his prestige projects together with the UN building, became a center for high art attended by the most affluent citizens. The hundreds of thousands of poor people, mostly Blacks, whose homes were destroyed to make way for these grand projects were driven to the ghettoes where they invented graffiti, break dancing and rap music. Robert Moses's work thus produced a mixture of elitist culture and hip-hop culture.

Social aspects, Evaluation, New York, New York, Popular culture, Inner cities, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Moses, Robert (American government official)

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Historicizing the transnational: Robert Coover, Kathy Acker and the rewriting of British cultural history, 1970-1997

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The author attempts to analyze the historical significance of the two decades 1970 and 1997 with events that marked the beginning of a new millennium, with globalization and post nationalism in the full swing.

United Kingdom, International Affairs, Nationalism, Analysis, History, British history, 1970 AD, 1997 AD, British culture

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'Short Cuts' and long shots: Raymond Carver's stories and Robert Altman's film

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The translation of Raymond Carver's story 'Short Cuts' into a film is discussed. Director Robert Altman's ambivalent feelings about Carver are assessed.

Works, Motion pictures, Movies, Altman, Robert (American lawyer), Carver, Raymond

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