Word: hannerz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...predominantly black city, hip hop and soul music, when played over the radio, can have the effect of taking the difficulties of urban life and depersonalizing them, making them a communal problem rather than an individual failure. As Ulf Hannerz points out in his 1969 ethnography of Washington, D.C., Soulside, "the ghetto cultural apparatus also assures the members of the audience that their personal troubles are only reflections of the public issues of the community...
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