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The Meeting of Sacred and Profane in New York's Music: Robert Moses, Lincoln Center, and Hip-hop

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

András Tokaji
Affiliation:
András Tokaji, of Kenyérmezö u.6, Budapest VIII, Hungary 1081, wishes to thank the Soros Foundation, Budapest, for its Open Society Scholarship in 1989.

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