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GRAMMY U presents: Civil Rights Radio (Music as Politics) featuring special guest Wale | GRAMMYs

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can a song awaken us to injustice and stir our hearts to action? In Lesson 2 of the GRAMMY U Crossfader Lecture Series, USC professor Josh Kun and DJ J.Period explore the power of music in combining, mixing and remixing the soundtrack of social change- tracing the line of modern protest music from its roots in the songs of America's civil rights struggles, through the powerful political hip hop of the 90s, to the soundtrack of present day immigrant debates.
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