Mexico: Hip Hop in Juarez Responds to Violence

But hip hop, which first emerged among inner-city African-American youths in the U.S., "is more than a genre of music or dance. It is a social movement," says a 2004 U.N.-HABITAT (United Nations Human Settlements Programme) report.
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