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From breakbeats to the dance floor: How hip-hop and house revolutionized music and culture

  • Written by Joycelyn Wilson, Assistant Professor of Ethnographic and Cultural Studies , Georgia Institute of Technology
imageProducers Fast Eddie and Joe Smooth mix at DJ International Studios in Chicago in 1990. Innovation was at the forefront of house and hip-hop.Raymond Boyd/Getty Images

There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the Grammys.

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